Microsoft KB Archive/179101

= PUB98: How to Autoflow Text Through Multiple Text Frames =

Article ID: 179101

Article Last Modified on 11/10/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q179101



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 hold, you will see the following message:

Inserted text doesn't fit in this frame. Do you want to use Autoflow?

If you click Yes, Publisher will go to the next empty text frame it finds and the following message appears:

Autoflow to this frame?

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

Automatically create text frames?

If you click Yes, Publisher 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 click No for any of the above questions, the text will appear in the current text frame, and at the bottom of the text frame will be the Text In Overflow indicator (that is, an ellipsis) indicating that there is more text in the overflow area that is not currently being displayed on the screen.

To manually link frames or to go to the text in the overflow area, follow these steps:
 * 1) Select an empty text frame or draw a new text frame using the text tool.

The Connect Frames toolbar will appear.
 * 1) On the Connect frames toolbar, click the Connect Text Frames button (Chain). The mouse pointer changes to a pitcher.
 * 2) Move the pitcher pointer to the new text frame and click inside the frame.

The text will now appear. If the new text frame does not have a Text In Overflow indicator, then there is no more text to be autoflowed. If the Connect button has an ellipsis, repeat the above steps until all the text appears.

You can also use the Connect button to show a chain. A 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.

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