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• • April 11, 2015 at 3:15 pm #74563
    Darlene Massey

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    A blue # tag is showing up after chapter 2 in a long book I am working on. It will not let me go into the rest of the document to
    do any typing. How can I delete this along with this function?

    I had published chapters 1 and 2 to a PDF. Now I want to work on Chapter 3 and the curser won’t move past this # tag.

  • April 11, 2015 at 3:59 pm #74565
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That is probably just the “end of story” character that appears when Type > Show Invisibles is turned on.

  • April 11, 2015 at 5:16 pm #74566
    Darlene Massey

    Member

    Yes, but I can’t go past it. My author has changes he wants to incorporate and I have a table to insert later in the book.

    How can I get past this? I have been looking everywhere, and yes it is a visible end of story tag, but it is at the
    end of chapter 2 and I need to be able to get to the rest of the book.

    what I mean is that when I select the type tool the curser will not go past that end of story marker. It will not put a curser anywhere and when I go into the story editor it only shows 2 chapters, up to page 16. There are 148 pages in the book. By the way, I took your course on Lynda.com. That’s how I was able to do this.

    Help!
    and Thanks,

    • April 12, 2015 at 7:29 am #74570
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      It sounds like Chapter two is not linked to the rest of the chapters that follow. You will need to link the last page of chapter two to the first page of chapter three.

      If you don’t want to do that, then just go to the first page of chapter three and do your edits.

  • April 12, 2015 at 1:41 pm #74572
    Darlene Massey

    Member

    Well it had 2 ports. It looks like I fixed that. However I still cannot get the curser / type tool to pick up on page 17. Starting with page 18, I am able to do this. so on page 18 I went into the story editor and page 17 was there and the rest of book appeared to be there.

    I still think this has something to do with spinning off a PDF of pages 1 through 16. That’s when the end of story # appeared. Is there anyway to get rid of this?

    I really thank you for your help. I will not create anymore PDF’s that are only a portion of the book.

    • April 13, 2015 at 4:24 am #74580
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      I still get the idea that it’s not linked properly.

      If you go to the end of chapter two and delete the last hard return what happens?

      If the # sign disappears, then you know that chapter three is not linked to the previous chapter.

      Or it’s possible that you have a second text page over the last page of chapter two.

      I don’t use the story editor, so I’m unsure if it only shows linked text or if it shows all text, regardless of being linked.

  • April 13, 2015 at 6:05 am #74587
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Darlene, are all these chapters in a single InDesign document? So you can see chapter 3, right?

    So, Dwayne is saying that the text frames may not be THREADED together. (Dwayne, I much prefer the word “threaded” instead of “linked,” because links are what show up in the Links panel. Or some people would consider documents “linked” in a Book panel.)

    InDesign is not like Word, where everything is one long story. In your case, perhaps the “story” (the chain of threaded frames) ends at the end of chapter 2. You can tell by selecting the last frame with the Selection (arrow) tool. If the square “out port” in the lower-right corner has a little triangle in it, it means it’s threaded to another frame. If it has a red # in it, then it means it’s overset (too much text to fit into the frame. If it is blank then it’s the last frame in the story.

    From what you’re describing, you should be able to select the text in chapter 3 just by clicking it with the Text tool. If not, it’s also possible it’s locked for some reason.

  • April 13, 2015 at 2:00 pm #74603
    Darlene Massey

    Member

    This is all one document, which will be a book. It just has the main content right now. If I delete the last return, then the # moves up. The type tool / curser won’t move past it.

    The port at the lower end of the page is not overset, and has a blue arrow in it. It looks as if it is linked properly.

    If I go to page 17, the start to a new chapter, when I type T for the text tool the curser then jumps back to page 16 right
    in front of the # sign. If I select page 18, I can get the type T tool to put the curser there. Is it possible to send a screen shot or something like that?

    This is my first project with InDesign, so I could have done something somewhere. The good news is the author really likes the formatting but it also was so clear that he could see his content still needed editing.

    Thanks

    • April 13, 2015 at 2:33 pm #74605
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Darlene–you can’t post a screenshot directly in the forum, but you can if you put in a hosting site (such as drop box, 4shared, etc.).

      Or, if you need, I can post my email address and you can send it to me for me to look at.

      *****
      David–I see your point about the terminology. I guess old habits die hard for me. I am so used to calling text boxes linked, as well as referring to text wrap as runarounds. I blame it on my old Quark days, as well as the folks I work with who still use the outdated terms.

    • April 14, 2015 at 1:19 am #74612
      Theunis De Jong

      Member

      It sounds like you have one text frame on top of another. Drag the selection arrow over this frame from the side, then shift+click on top of it. If there was only one, you’ll have selected nothing. If there were more, you’ll still see the selection markers. If so, you need to check which one is the faulty and which one you want to keep.

  • April 14, 2015 at 9:31 am #74631
    Darlene Massey

    Member

    Jongware,

    Thanks, I did try that and there was an extra text box from the previous page. However it did not seem to be the problem. I did correct it though. Good Idea to check. I will remember that.

    Dwayne,

    I think I would like you to take a look at the document. I don’t have a dropbox so I would like to email it. There are images to the document so would I also have to send the images file?

    I am able to edit the text in the story editor. But I don’t have access to that page. I randomly checked and I can get the type tool to work on other pages.

    Thanks

    • April 14, 2015 at 12:00 pm #74637
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Darlene

      Go ahead and email me. I won’t need the artwork though. Just the file and fonts (at least the text font).

      You can email me at:

      d w a y n e . h a r r i s @gmail.com

      (You need to remove the spaces).

      Depending on when you send it, I can check it tonight after work or if you sent too late, I can check first thing tomorrow morning.

      Dwayne

  • April 15, 2015 at 3:05 pm #74684
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Issue has been solved. Darlene emailed me the file, and it was a case of chapters not being threaded together. There were also some blanks pages that were linked to each other, but nothing in them.

    But all has been fixed.

  • April 15, 2015 at 4:02 pm #74704
    Darlene Massey

    Member

    Thanks to Dwayne. It really looks good now. I can edit chapter 3.

    • April 16, 2015 at 5:00 am #74714
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      I’m glad I was able to help :)

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