lost side heads after import

[rlauriston]

I've been cleaning up a complicated, crufty template I inherited by starting with a very clean generic template and importing the elements I'm actually going to use.

I'm pretty much done, but in the new template all paragraphs are aligned at the left side head margin. The paragraph tag settings are identical (Across All Columns and Side Heads or In Column, as appropriate), as are the text frame settings (Room for Side Heads checked, width .75", gap .25", side Left).

In the old version, I can see the side head rules both on body pages and on master pages. In the new version, I see them only on master pages.

FrameMaker 10 unstructured. Any troubleshooting tips?

[rlauriston]

I brought up a frame's properties in Body Pages view and Room for Side Heads was unchecked, so I checked it, and that fixed it throughout the document (single flow).

Is that expected behavior when you change to a master page with side heads?

[Arnis_Gubins · Accepted solution]

Sideheads are a flow property (effectively a document level property, not any individual text frame). If they were enabled in the MasterPage, but not showing on the Body pages, then the Body pages had an override (i.e. it was turned off there).

[rlauriston]

Shouldn't the Room for Side Heads setting on the master page be applied if you select Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides when importing?