InDesign Problem

[infinitux]

Hi there, I created a 105 page book with indesign,
and there are only minor changes needing to be done.

However, it seems that the program may have corrupted the file, or there is some kind of setting that was made, so that the main text of the book is locked and uneditable.

The table of contents of the book is editable, and I can type stuff in, but all of the stories in the book cannot be modified, and I get no text cursor to further format the document for final print.

Can somebody please tell me there is something I can do instead of having to start over on the book? It was two weeks of editing work, and I'd really rather repair the situation if possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[apepp]

...check to see whether the layers aren't locked in the layers palette...

...also those text frames, are they also on the master page?

...if so you will need to override master page items to edit them, right click a page, choose override, to see if that enables you to edit the text frames...

...you can also do it directly on a page object that is linked to a master by press apple/command + shift on the object, this is known as a local override...

...to undo this, from the pages flyout menu is the option to remove local overrides...

Andrew

 

[eugenetyson]

This happened me on a file. It turned out that something that I imported from MS word didn't work in InDesign. Any changes I tried to make, even scrolling resulted in the file crashing. However, when I reopened it it opened on the page that I last re-imported on. I simply selected the whole story, click in the box with the type tool and press Ctrl/Cmd + A and cut.

Open a Notepad or simialr simple text edit program and paste, then reimport to indesign. You have to reformat it. No other way about it. If that's the problem.