thanks for your response and queries. Up until the upgrade I've never had any problems working with text wrap. The 48pp publication layout I was working on was created in Indesign 3 last year and had text wraps throughout. Now that I'm in CS5 and need to do amendments to the layout, I found that when I selected the new imported text, the 'text frame option' would only appear in grey and selecting text wrap for my object had no influence on the text no matter where I positioned it. However, your question 'does this affect all files' got me to try out a newly created CS5 file and using imported and created text, the text wrap works fine and there's no issue with accessing the 'text frame option'. So I guess there's something going on with the previous C3 file being brought up to C5. I'm just going to try to work around it.