Operation Manual

Working with Text 107
The illustration above shows how the cursor will change when hovering over the
selected bounding box (1), after dragging inwards the column margin can be
adjusted (2), and after dragging downwards, the top margin blind can be moved
(3).
To edit frame properties using a dialog:
1. Select the frame and click Frame Setup on the Frame context
toolbar.
2. From the dialog, you can change the Number of columns, Gutter
distance between columns, Left Margin, Right Margin, and
enable/disable text wrapping around an object.
3. To change the column widths and blinds (top and bottom frame
margins), click a cell in the table and enter a new value.
How a story flows through a sequence of frames
You can have just one frame on its own, or you can have many frames. Frames
can be connected in linked sequences so that the story associated with a given
frame sequence flows through the first frame on to the next and keeps flowing
into frames in the link sequence.
A key difference from a word processor is that PagePlus does not normally add
or remove frames according to the amount of text. The text simply flows until
the text runs out (and some frames are left empty), or the frames run out (and
some text is left over), i.e.
• If the text runs out before the last frame, you have some empty frames.
These frames will be filled with text if you add more text to the story,
or if you increase the size of the story text.
• If there is still more text to go after filling the last frame, PagePlus
stores it in an invisible overflow area, remembering that it's part of
the story text. If you later add more frames or reduce the size of text in
a frame, the rest of the story text is flowed in.
PagePlus keeps track of multiple linked frame sequences, and lets you flow
several stories in the same publication. The Text Manager (accessed via the
Tools menu) provides an overview of all stories and lets you choose which one
you want to edit.