Microsoft KB Archive/124406

= PUB: How to Autoflow Text Through Multiple Text Frames =

Article ID: 124406

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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 * Microsoft Publisher 3.0 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
If you import or paste too much text into a text frame, Microsoft Publisher can automatically put the extra text into additional linked text frames. This feature is called Autoflow.



MORE INFORMATION
If you import or paste more text into a frame than that frame can display, you will see the following message:

Inserted text doesn't fit in this frame. Autoflow?

If you choose Yes, Publisher will go to the next empty text frame it finds and display the message:

Autoflow to this frame?

If you choose Yes, this frame will be used. If there is no empty text frame or still not enough room to finish bringing in the text, then another message will display:

Automatically create text frames?

If you choose Yes, Publish will insert new pages and create text frames on as many pages as are needed to fit all the rest of the text.

If you choose No for any of the above questions, the text will display in the current text frame, and at the bottom of the text frame will be a connect button with three black dots (that is, an ellipsis) indicating that there is more text in the overflow area that is not currently displaying on the screen.

To manually link frames or to get to the text in the overflow area, do the following:
 * 1) Select an empty text frame or draw a new text frame using the text tool.
 * 2) Click the ellipsis button, and the cursor will change to a pitcher.
 * 3) Move the pitcher (cursor) to the new text frame and click inside.

The text will now display. If the new text frame's connect button has one white diamond, there is no more text in the overflow area. If the connect button has an ellipsis, repeat the above steps until all the text is displayed.

The connect button can also display a chain. The chain indicates that two or more text frames are connected to each other. Next to the chain will be another button with an arrow pointing in the direction of the next connected text frame. At the top of the text frame will be an arrow button pointing back to the previous text frame. When you click either of these buttons, the cursor will move to the next or previous connected text frame.

