Perfect. Thank you.

This works but there is one snag: all of this text is set in slanted in a blue color for some reason (which is not my basic paragraph). Any idea what triggers this? Is there a way I can set this to 'basic paragraph' style?

Neither. But while looking around I noticed there is something like a 'layer color' which suspciously looks like the color the text is set in. I saw this when looking at text frame options and it told me there was a color set which was a (layer color). I haven't done anything consciously with layers, but I might have accidentally.

My caption for a view starts with a label in blue characters followed by italics text. The pasted text shows up like blue utalics, as if both the font color and th efont style have become part of the 'layer'.

When I look at layers, I see

Layer 1

     <some text>

     The figure object, which expanded shows

          The PDF that is the image in the figure

Addition: when I click the imported text the paragraph style is Basic Paragraph+ and I can get rd of blue/slanted by removing a character-style override. No idea how that got there, though

Got it! I had to select the text frame in the layers panel. Then it was added in that text frame also using that text frame. I also reordered it to whast it was, with the text frame being the last object, but I think that was not the problem.

Addition. Nope: I celebrated early. What happend was the creation of a new text frame. I've still got the problem when trying to paste in in the main text frame.

Paragraph style Basic Paragraph. Character Style "View Caption Number". Setting this to None solves it.

What is very strange is that "View Caption Number" is a character style that is regular with a color (for the "View #:" part of the caption. But the imported text had that color and was slanted. No idea where that slanted comes from.

It has been imported correctly now, but there is a new problem. When I am inside the text frame where I want to add the text and I do Cmd-d and select the file, the text ends up in the frame, but no new pages and frames are created (no text reflow). When I then click ctrl-Z to remove the text and shift-click to get text-reflow, a new text frame is created that starts slightly below where I was and this reflows over the rest of the pages. These pages have two linked column text frames per page, while my master has a single text frame and the text style inside the frame is multi-column (so I can make column spanning styles).

In other words: the shift-click import does not follow the master page layout, but follows somehow an older master page layout that was changed.

But my Master Page, though originally set up with two colums (and stll has those 'guides' visible) only has one big text frame of which the content is multi-column.

I was able to solve one thing: when new pages are now created, the new pages have one column. The reason was that the Layout->Margins & Columns was still set to 2 columns.

However, when I drop the file while in the text frame, text reflow does not work. When I then undo and shift-click in the text frame, a new (now poroperly one column) text frame is created. I could try to find out how to remove the one I'm in and connect the new one. But there is another problem, all the spreads created have two pages on the right and no pages on the left.

This might have to do with the fact that my Master is a single page, no spread.

I think I must be almost there.

How do I get it to go to the existing empty frame? When I shift click, it create s new one (1 column) and one on every next page with one column. It does not use the existing text frame from the master (which is 2-column) and any added page has both frames (the single and the double column on top of each other)

Almost, almost there, thanks to your help. I have now my text in 45 pages. It is still not entirely stable, sometimes, when I add a page, I do not get a spread with one right hand page, add another, I get a next spread wth a left hand page, add another th esecond new spread is extended with another right page etc. Still, I don't have that issue now, I have only this.

When I type at the end of my document, the left page filles up, then it flows nicely to the right page.

At the end of the right page when I type on, the following happens:

- a third page appears in the spread

- the text does not flow to a new page

What is going on here?

Type preferences are set to smart reflow, add to end of story, limit to primary text frames

I was able to solve th eproblem by doing this:

1. Create a new Master B from a correctly laid out spread (drag spread to master are in pages panel)

2. Remove the content of the primary text frames

3. Remove the graphics

4. Let it be based on None instead of Master A

5. Copy the graphics from Master A over to Master B

6. Apply Master B to all pages

7. Remove Master A

Now, if I add a page, it does not have distorted positons for the not-overridden primary text frames and all the master graphics.

Note, I did step 1 instead starting from an empty new master because that empty new master has a 3-column layout somehow.