PUB98: How to Autoflow Text Through Multiple Text Frames (179101)

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If you import or paste more text into a frame than that frame can hold, you will see the following message: If you click Yes, Publisher will go to the next empty text frame it finds and the following message appears: If you click Yes, this frame will be used. If there is no empty text frame or still not enough room to finish bringing in the text, you will receive this message: If you click Yes, Publisher will insert new pages and create text frames on as many pages as are needed to fit all the rest of the text.

If you click No for any of the above questions, the text will appear in the current text frame, and at the bottom of the text frame will be the Text In Overflow indicator (that is, an ellipsis) indicating that there is more text in the overflow area that is not currently being displayed on the screen.

To manually link frames or to go to the text in the overflow area, follow these steps:

1. Select an empty text frame or draw a new text frame using the text tool.
   
   The Connect Frames toolbar will appear.
2. On the Connect frames toolbar, click the Connect Text Frames button (Chain). The mouse pointer changes to a pitcher.
3. Move the pitcher pointer to the new text frame and click inside the frame.

The text will now appear. If the new text frame does not have a Text In Overflow indicator, then there is no more text to be autoflowed. If the Connect button has an ellipsis, repeat the above steps until all the text appears.

You can also use the Connect button to show a chain. A chain indicates that two or more text frames are connected to each other. Next to the chain will be another button with an arrow pointing in the direction of the next connected text frame. At the top of the text frame will be an arrow button pointing back to the previous text frame. When you click either of these buttons, the cursor will move to the next or previous connected text frame.