So, I’m writing a book and have started in a creative way by entering copy for a chapter name and copy for a subhead on the next line (both styled the way I want them). In other words, every page (about 124 thus far) has an individual entry: a chapter name and a subhead below it. One entry per page, not threaded. They’re essentially place holders, so that I can arrange the pages in my preferred order before beginning the task of writing the copy (in InCopy) and placing it later.
Once the body copy of a particular chapter is written and completed in InCopy (which has paragraph styles mapped to the InDesign styles), I simply delete the placeholder text frame in InDesign and place the InCopy chapter file which perfectly brings over the styling. Here’s the problem, though… When I shift-click, expecting blank pages to be automatically added to accommodate the text flow, well, it autoflows well enough, but OVER the other pages (which are populated with those chapter/subhead placeholders I mentioned above). For lack of a better word, superimposed. I’d expect those adjacent pages to be pushed down with the shift-click placement so that the placed file can be added cleanly, but it doesn’t work. I’ve tried everything that would seem logical in terms of threading but nothing works; I have resigned myself to manually creating needed pages and manually placing overset text. Any idea?
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