Combining InDesign text boxes

[Dave5133]

Is there any way to combine or merge multiple InDesign text boxes? In other words, I have multiple text boxes in a single InDesign document and I want to get the contents of all the text boxes into one single text box.

 

[MarcusStringer]

You can link Text frames, only if one of them is empty.
You can't link text frames where both have content in them.

Check you help menu on the steps required

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Ekwoman]

Actually, you can link text frames that have content in them. When you do, the content in the latter frames will move to the end of the frame.

To link two frames (with or without content), simply click with one of the selection tools on the outflow box (the little box near the lower right) of the 1st frame in your series, then click inside the next frame you want linked.

In your case, if you click and link frames with text in them, all of the story's text will be linked then you can delete the other text frames and just work with the first frame.

Hope that makes sense...

 

[MarcusStringer]

Well there you go...I was always under the impression that you couldn't link two text boxes with content in both.

I just tried it and Ekwoman is 100 % correct.

You just keep learning on this forum

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au