Erica Gamet
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Put the two column text frame on your master page. Then, on your first document page (with nothing selected), choose Place, select your text file, hover over the text frame on the document page, hold the Shift key, and click inside the frame. It will add pages as needed, putting the text in the double column. Hope that helps!
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
https://www.digi-wizard.com/learn“…for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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Do you have your chapters labeled in the Numbering & Section Options part of the Pages panel? If so, I don’t use text variables there…I name each chapter in the numbering sections and use Type > Insert Special Characters > Markers > Section Marker. Not sure if that helps or not…
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
https://www.digi-wizard.com/learn“…for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
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The file is coming out as all its source code…is it emailable? You can send it to my email at learn@digi-wizard.com (don’t forget the hyphen) and I can take a look at it…figure out the mystery!
Erica Gamet
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Glad I could help…I figured it was too late for you, but would be of help to someone!
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
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Did you put the page into Preview mode (where no guides or non-printing items are showing up)? You’ll need to make sure you’re in Normal view mode and turn “Show Frame Edges” back on (View menu).
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
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Put it on a Master page that gets applied to every page but the front. Or, if you alraedy have a master page and you need the rest of the master items on the front page, you can Shift-Command (or Shift-ctrl on a pc) the unwanted item from the front page and delete it.
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
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Yes…just open the file directly into InDesign (File –> Open).
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
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It’s hard to tell without the files, but it looks like the green rectangle is actually a filled table cell…is it? If so, the mystery frame is the table’s text frame…table elements can extend outside the frame to the right, if needed. To try it, select the green square with the Selection tool and go to the Object menu and choose Fitting –> Fit frame to content. You could further check that it’s a text frame by pulling the center bottom handle downward to see if you get the little inflow and outflow boxes at the upper left and lower right.
Hope that helps!
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
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I would break them into two documents and connect them using the Book feature…that way you can maintain styles among the files, but the page numbering is set individually.
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
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It sounds like there is a Space Before or Space After command applied to the paragraph. Put your cursor in one of the paragraphs and go to the Paragraph panel. There is an icon that looks like three lines of text with a grey rectangle at the bottom (hover over the icon to see if the tooltip says space after)…there will be a value typed into the text field with a small amount of space (maybe .125″ if you’re using inches, that is)…if you make that zero, the space will go away.
The reason you would want to use this is because you often want extra spacing in between paragraphs and hitting multiple returns is a bad idea. The program realizes that if you have this auto programmed extra space and that space would appear at the top of a page or column, it knows to ignore the space…but as soon as there is text just above and below the space, it adds it back it. It’s a discretionary space.
Hope that helps! (I didn’t see any screenshot, so I was just guessing)…
Erica Gamet
Digital Dimensions
https://www.digi-wizard.com/learn
“…for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”