Does anyone know why in In Design, my text boxes disappear when I turn on text wrap?

[carolynk56780996]

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[Barb Binder]

Text wrap should move text (not text frames) out of the way of the object that you assigned it to. I see an elliptical frame in your screen shot, but I don't see text wrap boundaries on it. I think a little more information will be needed to give you the answer you are are looking for.

Can you please share two more screen shots of the entire screen, with the text wrap panel open?

In the first one, show what the page looks like before you enable text wrap, and in the second one, show what the page looks like after you select the wrap object and turn it on.

[carolynk56780996]

[Barbara Ash]

It looks like your text boxes are not disappearing -- the type inside some of the text boxes is disappearing -- like on the first and fourth text box. On those boxes, the box is not wide enough to display any characters, and there may be keep options or hyphenation settings preventing any characters from showing.

[carolynk56780996]

Resetting the "keep options" to keep lines together enabled the text to show through properly! Thank you for that!  Unfortunately, now none of the text is wrapping...back to the drawing board!  Thank you! 

[Barbara Ash]

Would be helpful to see a screen capture of what it looks like now.

[carolynk56780996]

Still doing it, ugh. 

Never had this problem before

[Barbara Ash]

By any chance are text boxes set to ignore text wrap?

[Barbara Ash]

Another possibility, in Preferences, is text wrap only affects text beneath turned on?

[Willi Adelberger]

My advice:

1. Use a single text frame for all the text on the right. Why are you splitting it up in several frames? It causes a lot of additional work. Format with paragraph styles and use spae before and after.
2. Give enough room to the text frame, so that text wrap can move words inside the text frame, best in the same line.
3. Text frames shouls ALWAYS snapp to the page border guide lines, not as it is now in yyour screen shoot, hanging around somewhere on the page. It causes a lot of problems if you need to make global changes later. Learn to work with these guide lines, it is very important.

[Barb Binder]

Carolyn: yours is now working as I'd expect it to.

Off:

On. The text gets out of the way of the ellipse, and text frames that are fully covered are empty. (This is different from your first screen shot.)

Now the question is—what do you want from this wrap? Making the frames bigger, and moving the ones that are under the ellipse out the the side would improve the look.

[jane-e]

Although you aren't asking, it is considered best practices to put all of this text into one frame instead of all separate frames.

• Click in the formatted text, create a style, apply it to similar text, remove any overrides, and update the style when you change the formatting.
• Use a right aligned tab for those numbers
• Use a left indent for the descriptions
• Use paragraph space above and below for consistent spacing
• The highlighting and bars indicate two things: one is that you are not using styles without overrides for those paragraphs and second, that you are working in Normal view.

• The highlighting and bars indicate two things: one is that you are not using styles without overrides for those paragraphs and second, that you are working in Normal view.
• The  [+] symbol in the Paragraph styles panel will turn off the highlighting.
• The pilcrow ¶ at the bottom of the panel will clear overrides so you can use whatever style you have created and applied.
• You should have at least three styles (no overrides): one for the Headings (Appetizers, Salads), one for the the entrees (crab claws, onion rings), and one for the descriptions.

If all of this text is in one frame, and if the frame is wide enough, it will solve your text wrap issue with the oval.