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Changed fonts, half my text disappeared, story shows overset text with red line

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    • September 20, 2023 at 12:22 pm #14395963
      David Loveday
      Participant

      Hello, Immediately after changing fonts in my document, the text from page 5 to the end of the document simply disappeared. I checked the story and all the remaining text shows up with an overset text notation and a red bar down the side of the story frame. I have checked for hidden characters/ graphics, but can find nothing out of place. At page 5 in my document. the out port shows the red plus sign, and the frames are all threaded to the end, all without text. The original document (before text change) still flows properly. I have followed a few suggestions from the forum, but nothing allows me to correct this. Does anybody have a workable solution, please?
      Many thanks.

    • September 20, 2023 at 12:30 pm #14395964
      Steve Davis
      Participant

      Do you have particularly narrow columns and/or non-breaking spaces? Turn on hidden characters and check in your story editor.

    • September 20, 2023 at 2:00 pm #14395967
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Perhaps one of these articles will help:

      5 Reasons for Unexpected Overset Text


      or

      Tips for Fixing Overset Text

    • September 21, 2023 at 3:23 am #14395973
      Petar Petrenko
      Participant

      Have you tried to resize the text frame?
      Maybe there is a big image, or large, bold, one word headline…?

    • September 21, 2023 at 4:50 am #14395976
      David Loveday
      Participant

      Update!
      Thank you all for your suggestions. Problem solved. Yes, it was the width of the column that was the offending issue. The threading stopped at a heading of two rather long words that were separated by a no break command, which forced the column width to be greater than the column width of the template. A soon as I extended the column width, the remaining text in the document appeared.

    • September 21, 2023 at 7:34 am #14395979
      Mike Rankin
      Keymaster

      For future reference, this script will highlight any text with No Break applied to it, so you can easily spot the offending words. The nice thing is, the highlighting even shows up in the Story Editor, so you can just look there when the text is overset on the page. https://creativepro.com/a-script-to-highlight-no-break/

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