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Re: Unlinked text frames!!

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From: jbostrom
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:08
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Thank you for replying!

I've never actually used the Scripts pallete before, but I tried "merge stories" - and got an "invalid state" error message whether in both Layout and Story view. I'll start Googling for help on this script - any help you can give me much appreciated.

I've been trying to get by with doing it manually, cutting and pasting. Some of the sections are huge, dozens of pages. I copy and paste and when it's ok delete the copied block entirely. No point having more than one text block really. Working from the back is a good tip, thanks.

The only reason I can figure that they did this is that in one part of the text there are several images. They put these in separate text blocks rather than embedding them in the text. Otherwise I have no idea why they made so many text blocks. Maybe because it's so easy to do accidentally, and once you have a text block it's hard to get rid of it. I've been "closing the sandwich" on blocks to see if I can get the block before it and the block after it to flow together, which amounts to deleting the middle block.

What a drag, hours of time wasted on this. You would think there would be some simple one-click way to "combine all text."
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