^^That was my first thought, as well. But that doesn’t work for everything, at least in my experience. It may capture a lot, but sometimes not everything.
And hopefully paragraph styles or character stylyes are used in the Word file (Or whatever the OP is copying from). If so, it should come through.
I’ve always had issues when copying from Word to Indesign, and I’d much rather run my macros and tag the file and them place the text.

I’m not sure what you mean by you don’t want to do it that way. Don’t want to do what what way? Do you mean anchoring the art? Or is the art already anchored?

The only way to keep pictures with text is to anchor them (I usually use a hard return on zero leading).

If, by adding the hard return, the art and text is jumping (thus the oveflow symbol), it means that the art is no longer fitting with the text as there is too much text. Normally it would jump to the next page, unless those pages aren’t threaded.

Are you sure all the text frames are threaded?

And the three pages aren’t lost–the text and pictures are still there, they just won’t wit on the page as the page is too full.

It sounds like if you’re adding text (such as that extra hard return), you will need to unanchor that art and reanchor it as a different spot.

I admit it’s frustrating when I have a large book with tons of art and the the book is heavily edited. It makes it a real pain to un-anchor and re-anchor the art. But that’s part of the job, especially when we have to anchor art.

Hopefully David, Ari, or a few of the other experts will chime in.

If we had a small bit of the file to look at, or screenshots showing your pages (with invisibles turned on).

It definitely sounds like the script. I don’t work with scripts, unfortunately, so I can’t help as far as that. Have you contacted the folks who made the script?

It’s hard to tell without knowing how you have them aligned. Are they flush right or flush left? Paragraph style used or done by hand. If the latter, it’s possible you left a first line paragraph on it? Are they on the same line with the running heads (or running feet)? If so, maybe the tab you used is misaligned?

And sometimes the font may cause it because of the cut of the character.

Can you post a pic of it (you’d have to host it on something like DropBox or some file sharing service)?

If you have the CS3 file, you should be able to import them into your CC document. I no longer have CS3, but as an experiment I loaded a CC2014 document with style sheets from a CS4 document.

I’m sorry, Monica, but that makes no sense to me. People use character styles to avoid losing those attributes.

Most of the time, the paragraph will keep local formatting (i.e., italic, bold, etc.) that isn’t a character style. But it will always keep that formatting if a character style is used.

The issue is that sometimes one needs to clear all formatting to a paragraph style to work properly. That is when you hold down the option key and click the paragraph style sheet name.

If you don’t have character styles applied, then any italic, bold, etc., local formatting (i.e., without character styles applied) will be lost.

The only thing you did was delete the character styles and said that whatever they were applied to will remain (i.e. italic, bold, etc.).

But I can guarantee that if you hold down the option key and click the paragraph style sheet name to clear overrides, all your italic and bold will disappear.

The only way I know how to do is to key the number, then insert the carat and kern it it back.

Since a number with a carat isn’t a keystroke, it won’t be found in the glyph panel.

What other programs is it so super-easy in? I’ve never come across a program or font where carats were over numbers.