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• • December 9, 2009 at 4:52 pm #54187
    amberchiang

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    Hi everyone! I've got a problem that recently cropped up and I cannot figure out how to stop it. I'm working in CS3.

    For the longest time, objects such as squares would place with random fills and lines from swatches, but I've learned to deal with that since I usually add some sort of fill or line anyway. However, now, when I create any new object (paste, text, square, import art, etc) it places with text wrap automatically present. This is a new issue that is annoying to work with, especially when the text wrap sends other objects flying off the page – usually far out onto the pasteboard. Yes, I know I can just click off the text wrap, but I'd prefer it not do it in the first place.

    Does anyone know where those sorts of preferences are stored so I can get rid of them?

    Thanks!

  • December 9, 2009 at 4:58 pm #54188
    amberchiang

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    Arguahh. I hate it when it is THAT easy. After posting this, I had a hunch, and it paid off. Thanks all!

  • December 9, 2009 at 5:35 pm #54189
    David Blatner

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    Well… glad it worked out for you. What was your hunch that paid off?

    In general, though, it sounds like your default formatting got changed. Any formatting applied (like text wrap turned on) when no objects are selected, becomes the new default formatting applied to future objects.

  • December 29, 2010 at 2:15 am #58235
    Anita Sattler

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    Please can someone answer this question! I have the exact same problem and it is not the default formatting like David suggested :( I checked the setting having Indesign open without any document and it is turned off. Still I get an auto text wrap when I place photos by drag and drop from the desktop.

  • April 13, 2011 at 10:11 am #59247
    Lala Lala

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    don't you hate it when someone posts a problem, then goes out of their way to say “Found the answer!” without taking 5 seconds to type what it is?

    Anyway, registered to post it because I was having the opposite issue, I prefer text wrap on every new imported image.

    Like other adobe programs, if you make settings changes -without any file open- they get saved as your defaults. So just open indesign, with no file open, view your text wrap window, and click the first button (shows text flowing over the object). Now that's the default setting. Close indesign to make the setting stick.

  • September 26, 2012 at 7:55 am #63254
    dukemanjones

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    I registered to post JUST to say CreeDo is a good guy for posting the answer!

    Thanks, CreeDo!!

  • September 27, 2012 at 11:53 am #63259
    justiz2010

    Member

    Another fix we found helpful due to incosistencies in older documents (legacy files a bane of my existence.)

    If you have a bunch of existing frames that have text-wrap turned on and you want to be able to quickly fix them use object styles.

    We created an object style that just has the Wrap Text turned off and no other options selected. That we can quickly fix existing documents. We separate our content by layers so I can just select all the content of a layer, click this object style and done. This is very helpful with long documents (in our case catalogs.)

    If you need to use other object styles you can always select this object style and then back to your existing one.

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