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• • August 10, 2012 at 1:19 pm #62828
    Anonymous

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    I just went back into my book document to follow some wonderful advice I had gotten from Gert and David….and to my horror, it only showed two blank pages! I pressed Edit, and undid some paragraph style, and voila, there was my book again.

    What paragraph style would have done that?? Boy was I sweating bullets for a second.

  • August 10, 2012 at 3:47 pm #62835
    Anonymous

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    And it just happened again! So when I pressed Edit and Undo, it was Undo Move Section. I confess I don't even know what a “Move Section” is and why it causes everything to disappear….

  • September 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm #63033
    angharad09

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    This happened to me once, and it turned out that something in the style was making the text too big to fit in any text box in the document — super-large type? leading? paragraph rule? So it traveled forlornly from box to box and couldn't find a home in any of them. If I remember right, even when you can't see it on the page, you can still see it in Story Editor and try to get at it from there. Because of your section break message, this may not be what was happening to you, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

  • September 2, 2012 at 7:16 pm #63037
    Anonymous

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    Amanda said:

    This happened to me once, and it turned out that something in the style was making the text too big to fit in any text box in the document — super-large type? leading? paragraph rule? So it traveled forlornly from box to box and couldn't find a home in any of them. If I remember right, even when you can't see it on the page, you can still see it in Story Editor and try to get at it from there. Because of your section break message, this may not be what was happening to you, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

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    Thanks for replying Amanda. I'm even having this scenario right now in the Index, though in a different way. I placed the Word file of the Index (no columns) into my Indesign CS5. I didn't create columns ahead of time. So when I try to create the columns now, with the index in there, all it does is push everything to the next page, and makes a blank page with columns. Argh.

  • September 5, 2012 at 9:26 am #63072
    Chris Thompson

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    You can get all the text in a story to disappear by applying “No Break” to all of it. Then it effectively becomes all one long line that can't possibly fit any text box.

    Why would you want to do that? Well I'm glad you asked me that. It was a document using an old font which “re-used” all the code points for various characters in one of the Indian scripts, such that the text was only usable with that particular font – any other font and it showed rubbish text – and you had to change font every time an English word like a company name was used.
    Some of the re-used code points would be punctuation marks in any sane font, so InDesign would break lines in the middle of words. Fixed by applying No Break to everything and then taking it off spaces and anything else where you wanted a break to be allowed.

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