Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today we're going to talk about a couple
different things in InDesign.
First, we're going to talk about why your text disappears sometimes when you hit Return.
And the other thing we're going to talk about is sometimes when you go to print, you'll
see an error that comes up that says, "There's overset text on these pages."
And you can either continue and go ahead and print, but what you really should do is find
that overset text, so I'll show you an easy way to do that.
So first, we're going to cover the first problem, which is text disappearing when you hit Enter.
So I made this brochure a while back, and I want to go ahead and drop some text in.
So I'll grab it from Pages.
I'm just going to Select All and copy.
And now I'll make a text box here.
And I'll paste it in.
Now when I pasted this in, not every part of it is here.
It's ends early.
And this is probably the same thing that's happening to you - when you hit Return, this
is falling off the edge of the textbox.
So it's back behind there.
But InDesign does a really good job of letting us know that there's extra text.
And it's this little red plus sign down here at the bottom.
If you click that once your cursor will change, and then you can draw another text box.
And you can just keep doing that so that you're flowing your text all the way through your
document.
And this is really the best way to do this on nearly every document...because once your
client has changes, if you take out a paragraph, like deleting this one, it will automatically
flow correctly back through the document.
And that is really nice when you're going to make edits for a client.
So I really recommend having everything flow from text box to text box.
Now, once you get down here and you're at the end, if you hit return a couple times,
it is going to disappear.
And that's the same reason.
It's overset text.
So it's going over the edge of the text box - the text box can't hold it anymore, and
so we get the red plus sign.
So there are really two ways to fix this.
You can make your text box bigger, like this, and just pull it down.
Or you can go ahead and click that plus arrow and make a new text box somewhere else in
your document.
Now, if we didn't realize that we had overs... overset text in this text box, and we go to
print...I'm going to hit command P, and we will print.
We get this warning dialog box.
'There is overset text on these pages three and four.'
So this is telling us that we have text in our document that is not showing up.
And that is something you usually want to fix.
Obviously, you need to have all of the text that your client gave you in the document.
You don't want any missing.
You can go ahead and print and it will allow you to do that, but you really should find
that overset text and fix it.
So if you have a document that has about 25 pages, it can be really hard sometimes to
find where that overset text is – you have to click on every single little text box and
see if there's a red plus.
But InDesign makes it really easy.
They put a little red dot right down here at the bottom.
And you can click this arrow beside that and go to the Preflight panel.
Here are where your errors are, and you can click that dropdown.
And it looks like I have a few missing links here.
We won't worry about that.
And here are our overset texts.
So it's going to say a text frame here.
And I can just click on the number three, and it will take me right to that text box.
And then I can go ahead and fix it in one of the two ways that I showed you.
So this preflight box is a really handy little thing.
InDesign will make it very obvious to you that there's a problem in your document.
So it makes it easy.
If you're still having trouble with some text not showing up or having some weird text issue,
please leave a comment in the comment section below and I'll try to help you out.
And if you liked this video, please click the like button and I will see you next week.
Thank you!!!