Is 'text wrap only affects text beneath' option checked in pref/composition?

Also, there is an option for wrap of items on master pages: 'Apply To Master Page Only' from the text wrap panel pullout menu.

Besides that, I have seen a quirk before (CS3) where I had deleted a frame with text wrap, but the wrap remained. Exporting to .inx or copy/paste-in-place to a new file fixed it then.

I too am having the text wrap issue. (Of course on a night when all the documents--and there are many--are to ship to the printer.) The only change I made was to the pagination of the first page of the document. Not even from recto to verso, just from one odd number to another. After making that one change, the text wraps randomly changed on many of the items in the document.

I think I may have discovered a solution just now--after making any change at all to the document (in this case just a page number) it's as if the master page is being reapplied. In my case, there is a spread where there is a complex text box on the master page that has been enlarged/or shrunk on each actual page and the text is linked to this box.

After applying the page number (changing from page 1 to page 15) the text is gone from parts of the pages as though a wrap is being applied. And it is! It is being applied from the box on the master page that is no longer being used. When I delete the box, the problem goes away.

I have this problem also, quite regularly, in both CS5 and CS5.5.  As far as I can tell, it happens reproducibly when a paragraph with span columns applied is shifted (either by adding more text above it or by changing the size of the text frame) onto the following page where there is a frame with text wrap applied.  These may not be the only conditions under which it occurs, but it's quite reproducible if you set it up like that.

I can supply a bare-bones, freshly created InDesign file showing this problem if anyone wants it.

I am still having this problem in CS5, for what it's worth.

I've got CS5-5 too. It's driving me mad. I'm no expert but I've been using the program for a number of years to design flyers, brochures, posters and short booklets. Now I'm on my first magazine and I thought all the new balanced paragraph features would make the job a breeze - it hasn't! So, I have an A4 sized page with a two columned text frame that fills it (also have text flowing onto next page if that's relevant). Body text is 10pt with 12pt leading. All good so far. I used balanced paragraphs at first to have the two columns of text lining up horizontally. Looked good. However, as soon as I drop an image into the mix, the width of a  column (bottom left of page), simple text wrap, the text changes in  a most unsatisfactory way. Text above will not come down to meet the top of the image no matter what  I put in the text wrap measurements or which type of wrap I use. Also the text to the right of the image no longer goes down to the bottom of the text frame.

I then turned off the balanced paragraphs feature and used a baseline grid instead, taking up several of the suggestions in this forum and also using advice elsewhere on the net. Useful in a sense as it helped me to learn more about what the grid does but I am still left with my problem.

I may be wrong but I don't think I'm asking the program to do anything complicated. It's not as if the text has to wrap all round the object. I know I could achieve the effect I want by using single column text frames and getting the text to flow from one to the other but surely this isn't how it should be? If you like I can send screen shots but I'm not sure that would help. I'm writing this in the morning in the UK so I know many of you will still be sleeping. However, as soon as you've had your first coffee of the day, perhaps you could give me a bit of help? Needless to say, any advice anyone could offer would be very gratefully accepted.

Best wishes to all,

John

This seems to be a different problem from the one we're all talking about. Your text is still wrapping around your object, isn't it? just not correctly. We're talking about a problem where the text wrap is ignored entirely. If you start a separate thread, we can discuss your problem there. I don't mean to seem rude, but I want to make sure Adobe knows and remembers that this specific bug is genuine, and I fear that diluting this discussion with other problems or bugs will get in the way of that.

Hello Rhiannon and Diane

Thank you for you speedy replies and, now you have pointed it out, I can see the difference between your issue and the one I have highlighted. I'll do as you suggest and start a new thread. In the meantime, best wishes with your quest to have your problem acknowledged and solved.

Best wishes

John