![]() ![]() The + symbol should be gone, if not, expand the selection downwards a bit further and cut again. Then simply place your cursor after the final characters still visible in the text box, before the + symbol, and hit shift - down arrow** two or three times.So first cut the connection between two text boxes.This may be a little intimidating at first, but the upside is that you can quickly and safely move all the overset text to a new text box, without using the story editor or worrying where to start and end your custom selection. You know when your typing cursor is active in a text and you use shift + any of the arrow keys, you make a selection of text in that direction*, right? If this selection so much as touches overset text (all the content hidden behind the red + icon in the corner of your text box), it instantly selects it all. But I would argue it's quicker and safer than both. My preferred method of cutting longer text box chains is a hybrid between Michael's method and the one Gscortino1 originally reacted to. If you need to do this often, then the script will save you time however, if you plan your documents well, hopefully yo won’t need to do this often! It breaks the thread, selects and cuts the overset text, and then pastes that text into the empty frames. In essence, this is what the script is doing for you automatically. You’ll see that all the overset text is clearly marked and easy to select in the Story Editor.Edit the story in Story Editor (click in the text with the type tool, go to the Edit menu, choose “Edit in Story Editor”).All the remaining text becomes overset, and the rest of the frames are now empty, ready to receive the new story. Break the text thread between the frames by clicking the out-port of the last frame in the first story, then clicking that same frame.I’ve used it in CS4 and CS5 (not yet in 5.5) and it has worked perfectly. It allows splitting of all frames in a story, splitting before selected frame, or splitting after selected frame. The script was developed by Adi Ravid and is available at the Adobe Exchange. I was able to find a solution it was similar to what you both said but a little easier and also I found a script that is available on Adobe. If you prefer to keep things tidy, you can delete those extra next paragraph/next frame/next column characters either with the story editor or with the Remove Trailing White Space GREP (just be careful to only apply it where needed, in case it messes up something you hadn't intended). ![]() That's because we placed the cursor after the separator at the end of the chapter and instead selected the text from the beginning of the next before cutting. One last thing, each chapter will have a separator at the end, rather than the # symbol that indicates the end of a story. Unless you find a better way, the method I have described will work, but maybe not as quickly as you would have hoped. I don't use the two scripts you tried, but I'm pretty sure that they will break each individual text frame into it's own story, which isn't what you want. ![]() Repeat the process to make chapter 2 separate from 3-end, and so on. You now have all of chapter one in it's own threadded story, and chapters 2-end in a second. Click into the first frame of chapter 2 with the Type tool (or double-click with the still-selected Selection tool to switch to the text tool and place the text cursor) and paste. That will keep frames 1-5 as one story, and 7-16 as a separate story.Ħ. With the Selection tool, double-click the out port of the frame at the end of chapter one (Frame 6, in this case). You won't keep that frame when you're done, so it's optional).ĥ. Cut the text (you can paste it into a small frame on the pasteboard if it makes you feel safer. Select all of the text after the cursor by hitting the End button while holding Shift and Command.Ĥ. Place the cursor before the first character of the text of chapter 2.ģ. Go to the beginning of the second chapter. All 16 frames are on one page, which I realize isn't what you have, but it works for a visual.ġ. Here's an example with 16 text frames linked into one story. In case you're looking for a "press this button and it will work" solution, this isn't it, but I can walk you through what you've tried and maybe help you sort it out that way if you like. ![]()
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