Problem copying large volume of text

[Starbreakker]

Noobie trying to get to grips w. Pagemaker 7. Trying to copy a large volume of text, 500 pages plus, into Pagemaker to then format. Tried to create enough pages to cater for this but it does not seem to work. If I can't do this, how do I use Pagemaker for creation of a book?

 

[BionicJohn]

See this thread: thread227-1270601

For tutorials, see: Adobe PageMaker Tutorials

Remember PM is not a Word processor based on typewriter technology where text is sequential from left to right, top to bottom. See it as a database recording where blocks of text or pictures are moved about on a piece of paper until in the right place.

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[jazminecat]

Did you try pasting it into a story? you need to first insert a story, then go to edit story, and then paste your text into the story editor, and then save and close just the story window. Note that it may not automagically wrap your story from one page to the next - you may have to continue the story on each successive page. Click on the bottom arrow bar for the story in pagemaker view (as opposed to story edit mode) and it should be red. then go to the next page and click to continue your story on the next page. Hope this makes sense, I don't have my pagemaker open right now so i'm typing from memory.