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I do book work, with many pages of linked text. Sometimes part of a page of text has to be in a differently formated text box than that which is on the master page (usually going from 2 columns to 1 column). In Quark 6.5 I was able to shorten an existing text box, insert an empty text box below it and link the box above to the new empty box. The text would flow into the new box and then out to the other boxes in the linked chain on the following pages. In 8.02 I cannot seem to do this. The Help File says the linking and unlinking tools are unchanged. I'm stumped. Inserting boxes into a chain is an essential part of what I do--to not have that capability would be devastating. Thanks for any help! Paul/Ekeby

Hi Paul/Ekeby,

 Could you please explain what happens when you try to do the same in QuarkXPress 8

 When you link the text box in the middle of the linked chain  what are the results in version 8? 

 Thanks

 

Suppose for example you have a 7-page document, and you want to add another text box to page 4. You shorten the height of the existing box, add a new one underneath it, switch to the link tool, click the top box, then the bottom box to add it to the chain. Are you then linking the bottom box to the box on page 5?

Hi Navpreet . . . when I try to insert a box into a chain of text boxes, I click on the previous box with the link tool, then click on the empty box to link it to the chain. Nothing happens. The link chain displays as it was originally. I have tried to click on the previous box with the break-link tool, which does break the chain, but it will not let me link to the new box, only to a page that has an automatic text box on it.

I should also point out that when I shorten a text box on a page to add a new one, there is often a blank automatic page underneath the text box that already has text in it. I've never understood why, so I just delete the one underneath. I don't understand if that's a function of using the same project template over and over for different jobs, or something else. Is that part of the problem?

Paul / Ekeby

Hi Migman . . . no, I haven't done that because the text at the top of page 4 doesn't link to the new box. The new box never becomes active. If I click on the text at the top of page 4 and then on the new box, and then again from the new box to page 5, again, nothing. If I click on the empty box first to try to link it to the text on page 5, the new text box doesn't become active, and the existing link from the top box on page 4 shows the link to page 5. also see my response to Navreet above . . . thanks for any help guys . . . Paul / Ekeby

ekeby2:

I don't understand if that's a function of using the same project template over and over for different jobs…

 

Was the file you are using saved as a template (that opens as an untitled project), or is it just a project file that you are re-using? There is a significant difference. If a file is re-used over and over, it is possible that parts of the code can become damaged, which could cause errors like the one you are having.

If you (for example) have a monthly flyer and save it as a project, July's flyer will contain any errors that happened in June's flyer, along with any that happened May's, and so on. If you save it as a template with just master pages, colors, stylesheets, etc., anything that happens to one month's flyer won't effect the next because you aren't opening last month's flyer, you are opening a copy of the template that last month's flyer was built from.

For this project, you could try thumbnail-dragging to a new project, or appending the layout. That has the possibility of bringing the content to a new file, but possibly leaving the bugs behind.