The Mystery of the Unwelcome Text Wrap Contest Answer and Winners!

In our latest InDesignSecrets contest you all were challenged solve a problem for Bill, the fictional production artist who couldn’t figure out why placing images all of a sudden caused unwanted text wrap in his documents.

And the prize for getting the right answer—and having your name chosen at random from the correct entries—was a license for Multi-Find/Change 2.0 from Automatication.

As many of you wrote, the problem was Bill’s default settings.

Somehow or other, he accidentally clicked the Jump Object Text Wrap button in the Control panel when no documents were open (or a mischievous co-worker did it on purpose).

This told InDesign to apply Jump Object text wrap to all images placed into new documents. But documents that were created before the button was clicked retained their preference for no text wrap. That’s why Bill could copy and paste an image from an old document into a new document and it wouldn’t cause overset text. Selecting an object style that included text wrap with no documents open would do the same thing.

As expected, we received lots of correct entries. And the winners are…

Tomas Simko
Michael Buelens
Sherry Berghefer

Congratulations, folks!

Thanks to everyone who entered for taking the time to participate. I love reading your emails! Next month, we’ll have another contest with a great new prize.