Another idea I thought of. On the paragraph style in the first column, go to the rule below and put in a negative right indent. That will increase the rule length to the next column.

Robin

It has something to do with the page shuffling, which may be turned off in that document for some reason.

You can go to pages palette and I believe when you click on the arrow the drop down has something enabling or disabling shuffling.

Also–if you right click on the last page (before where you are trying to add text) you also get that option.

To be honest–I don’t remember which one I’ve had to enable to be totally honest.

So you may have to try to check or uncheck a couple of times to find the right one.

Hope that helps.

Hey whatever–I’m glad I was able to help. Sometimes the view on screen gets wacky. I’ve had half point rules below a chapter number that looks fine on one chapter, but 10 pages later it looks wrong. But it was fine. It is more common with tables (at least in my experience).

But–it never hurts to double-check.

Have a happy new year!

Sorry for the confusion. But I thought you were referring to chapter numbers (while using the section variable) because the title of the thread is Chapter Numbers, and you talk about chapter numbers.

I’m glad that David noticed the overset indicator and you have it figured out.

I don’t know of any way you can. I think you are limited to spreads.

I don’t think you can compare a word processing program to a page layout program.

And so far as I know, in Word, everything is one large file and don’t technically thread.

I always thread all my text in my files from the beginning, and that avoids problems like this.

I think there is a script that helps link unlinked text frames, but I’ve never had to use it. It may be one of the sample ones that came with InDesign.

Do your different stories use paragraph and/or character styles?

It may also be possible that your stylesheet is set to start on a new odd page.