1 Reply Latest reply: Aug 31, 2011 11:27 PM by Steve Werner RSS

    Red cross appearing on text box when I overlay with another?

    cocteau3 Community Member

      What is going on? Back in the days when I used Quark Xpress, I could layout a project in an hour. Create text box, picture boxes, etc. and move them around without a glitch. Now that I'm forced to use Indesign, I encounter many new difficulties that seem ridiculous. Here is the the latest:

       

      I'm laying out a book. On my master page facing pages window, I created a title header text box. Next, I created a small similar sized text box for using an automatically updating page number. I adjust the font and size in box boxes. I move the smaller, number text box OVER the title box, and voila! As soon as it gets anywhere close to it, the number box makes my "A" disappear (uses A because it is master page A)) and I only see an empty text box with the little red cross, indicating there is too much text to display. What? This is ridiculous! When I layout two similar boxes lower in the page, I do not have this problem. If I wanted this kind of problem, I would be using microsoft word or other ridiculous software.

       

      My document has zero margins and the boxes are kept well within the page boundaries. I cannot imagine what is going on to cause this. With Quark, I could have moved on hours ago to designing more pages in my book. Instead, I'm stuck at ground zero with this absurd learning curve and a 1000-page book that is proving worthless with little glitches like this.

       

      Any advice?

       

      Use Quark instead is not what I want to hear! I cannot afford a new mac and the cost of the software.

       

      Thanks.