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    • November 27, 2020 at 8:22 am #14333001
      Jim Brown
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      I have Smart Text Reflow to End of Story turned on

      So Ive got a story,

      and it’s flowed great and made the pages I need. Plus one other. Text flow keeps making a blank page, like there is more text to reflow. But there isn’t. There is no text left but reflow insists on inserting another “blank” page

      If I delete the page, it makes another. Aaaarrrrggghhh.

      Anyone know how I’m messing up. Cheers

      Jim

    • November 27, 2020 at 11:19 am #14333008
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Weird! Might be just a single character at the end. Select the story and open Edit > Edit in Story Editor to see if there’s something hiding in there? And turn on Type > Show Hidden Characters.

    • November 27, 2020 at 12:54 pm #14333028
      Dieter Stockert
      Member

      Davids question looks like the best fit for me. But additional: Do you have facing pages? Does this happen with an even and/or odd number of pages?

    • November 27, 2020 at 3:41 pm #14333032
      Jim Brown
      Member

      Hi and thanks, there is no extra text. Yes it is a magazine with facing pages, it is adding a right hand page.

    • November 28, 2020 at 6:49 am #14333036
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Member

      If you turn off Smart Text Reflow, and then delete the extra blank page (or just the empty threaded text frame on it), do you get an overset in the previous frame?

      If so, open Story Editor to see if there is a red line indicating the overset text. It’s possible that it’s an empty paragraph, or even an end-of-story inline graphic that got lost somewhere. Click after the last visible character that ends your story, and press Command-Shift-End (windows: Control-Shift-End) to select all the phantom text after your cursor, and then press Delete/Backspace to delete the selection. See if that works.

    • November 28, 2020 at 7:00 am #14333037
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Member

      Do you have “Preserve Facing-Page Spreads” option turned on in Preferences > Text > Smart Text Reflow? Try turning that off.

    • November 28, 2020 at 9:47 am #14333039
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Oh… good one, Anne-Marie. Also, if you’re using the Book panel, then this may be the issue:

      Can’t Delete Last Page of a Document

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