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Old March 12th, 2009, 06:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Terry from Iowa
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I'm writing a book and can't figure out how to stop to stop text flow at the
end of each chapter. When I add something to Chapter 1 it pushes the text
forward in Chapter 2 and messes up my formatting. There must be a simple way
to do this. Can someone please tell me. Thanks. -Terry
PS: I've tried the "disconnect" button but then I don't see anything in
Chapter 2 and beyond.
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Old March 12th, 2009, 07:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Ed Bennett
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Terry from Iowa wrote:
I'm writing a book and can't figure out how to stop to stop text flow at the
end of each chapter. When I add something to Chapter 1 it pushes the text
forward in Chapter 2 and messes up my formatting. There must be a simple way
to do this. Can someone please tell me. Thanks. -Terry
PS: I've tried the "disconnect" button but then I don't see anything in
Chapter 2 and beyond.


Using the "text flow" analogy is quite helpful here - if you break the
text flow from text box 1 to text box 2, then nothing appears in text
box 2, because it can't flow out of text box 1.

The solution is to cut the entire contents of the latter text box
onwards to the clipboard, de-link the chain, and paste it back in.

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Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org
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Old March 12th, 2009, 08:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Terry from Iowa[_2_]
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"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Terry from Iowa wrote:
I'm writing a book and can't figure out how to stop to stop text flow at the
end of each chapter. When I add something to Chapter 1 it pushes the text
forward in Chapter 2 and messes up my formatting. There must be a simple way
to do this. Can someone please tell me. Thanks. -Terry
PS: I've tried the "disconnect" button but then I don't see anything in
Chapter 2 and beyond.


Using the "text flow" analogy is quite helpful here - if you break the
text flow from text box 1 to text box 2, then nothing appears in text
box 2, because it can't flow out of text box 1.

The solution is to cut the entire contents of the latter text box
onwards to the clipboard, de-link the chain, and paste it back in.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org


Thanks for the response Ed but now I have the problem of how can I
selectively cut the 150 pages that follow Chapter 1? When I do a select all
on first page of Chapter 2 it only selects that one page. -Terry
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Old March 12th, 2009, 10:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Mary Sauer[_3_]
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Default Stopping Text Flow

Use Word for long documents, the text boxes won't be an issue.
Or try this:
At the end of chapter one, create a text box, link, ctrl+shift+enter will put
you to the beginning of the next text box.

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

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"Ed Bennett" wrote:

Terry from Iowa wrote:
I'm writing a book and can't figure out how to stop to stop text flow at
the
end of each chapter. When I add something to Chapter 1 it pushes the text
forward in Chapter 2 and messes up my formatting. There must be a simple
way
to do this. Can someone please tell me. Thanks. -Terry
PS: I've tried the "disconnect" button but then I don't see anything in
Chapter 2 and beyond.


Using the "text flow" analogy is quite helpful here - if you break the
text flow from text box 1 to text box 2, then nothing appears in text
box 2, because it can't flow out of text box 1.

The solution is to cut the entire contents of the latter text box
onwards to the clipboard, de-link the chain, and paste it back in.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
http://ed.mvps.org


Thanks for the response Ed but now I have the problem of how can I
selectively cut the 150 pages that follow Chapter 1? When I do a select all
on first page of Chapter 2 it only selects that one page. -Terry



 




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