Operation Manual

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You can make text flow between text frames and objects by linking the text.
You can remove links between multiple frames, and between frames and objects. When you have only two linked frames and you remove
the link, the overflow text remains in the second frame. Deleting a frame that is part of a series of linked frames redirects the text flow into
the next frame or object.
By default, paragraph formatting, such as columns, drop caps, and bullets, is applied to the selected text frames only. However, you can
change your settings so that formatting is applied to all linked text frames, or to all selected and subsequently linked text frames. For
example, if you apply columns to the text in one frame, you can choose whether to apply columns to the text in all the linked frames.
To combine or break apart paragraph text frames
1 Select a text frame.
If you are combining text frames, hold down Shift, and use the Pick tool to select subsequent text frames.
2 Click Object, and click one of the following:
• Combine
• Break apart
Text frames with envelopes, text fitted to a path, and linked text frames cannot be combined.
If you first select a text frame with columns, the combined text frame will have columns.
To link paragraph text frames and objects
1
Using the Text tool , select the starting text frame.
2
Click the Text flow tab at the bottom of the text frame or object.
If the text frame cannot hold all the text, the tab contains an arrow and the text frame becomes red.
3
When the pointer changes to a Link to pointer , do one of the following:
• To link to a frame or object on the same page, click the text frame or object into which you want to continue the text flow.
• To link to an existing frame or object on a different page, click the corresponding Page tab on the document navigator, and then click
the text frame or object.
• To create a new linked frame on another page, click the corresponding Page tab on the document navigator, and hover over the area
of the drawing page that corresponds to the position of the first frame. When a preview of the frame appears, click to create the
linked frame. The new frame has the same size and position as the original frame. If you click elsewhere on the page, the text frame
that is created is the size of the entire page.