Anchor text to frame?

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      Marisa Vitiello
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      I’m losing my mind here as I manually move all 300+ pages again (!) because I needed to change something at the beginning of this document. Please help in any way you can.

      Imagine that I have sized my text frame depending on whether it is the beginning of the chapter. In addition I have these interlude pages that have text only in a small box in the middle of a page. I change something at the beginning of the doc and everything moves and fills in the wrong box in the wrong place. Among all sorts of other mysterious problems (like text rethreading).

      I’ve been using primary text frames (though often adding a new frame on top, whether accidentally or on purpose) and also had Smart Text Reflow on until recently. I thought I might have more freedom to move things around without it imposing new changes on me.

      So, my question is: Can I anchor the text to the frame so that the text doesn’t move into the wrong box and mess everything up?

      Thanks for any help you can offer.
      marisa

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      So these intermittent text boxes do not need to “flow” with the rest of the text? Then

      1. cut the text out from the flowing text;
      2. paste it in a box of its own on the correct page;
      3. delete the threaded text frame on that page.

      Threaded text will only through in text frames that are threaded together. If you place a box of text anywhere on a page and do not thread it to the flowing story, the text inside it will not move along with the rest.

      If you find text moves around unpredictably, then you may have moved text frames out of sequence. Switch on Text Threads in the View window to see what flows from where to where; selecting any frame will show ALL of its threads for the entire text run that it contains.

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