I'm posting on behalf of my mother, a Ventura 10 user. She asks:
Sometimes when I draw frames inside each other, or overlapping, a red X appears over the entire page, and all text on following pages disappears.Usually if I delete the offending frames all is well again.This time I have page 7 in a file showing an irremovable red X. I did move frames around in a foolish way, one complete with pic & caption coming right down over the footer. I have managed to delete that pic and caption frame, but the big red X rermains immovable, and I have lost all text on the following several pages.
Can anyone please offer any thoughts or suggestions?
Many thanks
Aidan
Hi Eric,Firstly thank you very much indeed for your time and kind assistance. I forwarded your response to my mother via email, and she's responded in email style, so I hope you'll forgive the layout below.
> Let me give a bit more background on> Format Errors and why they occur....I never do any of those very complicated things -- just the basic specifying fonts and spacing, paragraph tag formatting.
> So, for example, if you have several paragraphs> that are designated "Keep with next" under Breaks,> which forces them all to stay on the same page,> but there's so many of them! that they will not> actually fit on a single page, this would cause a Format Error.I haven't used that.
> In your mom's case, I suspect the formatting> error is being triggered somewhere within the> text that won't appear on page 6.Yes. I foolishly pasted it in from an email attachment that included an email address, blue and underlined. I think that overwhelmed Ventura's coding. I have deleted the whole passage, but think the evil effects remain.
> First, try this. Open the publication, navigate> to page 3 or 4, and then add a half page of ...Did that -- the text flowed down, but so did the red Xd page, which is now page 8, with nothing visible following it.
> Second, make sure there are no frames on page 6....I'm sure there is a back frame, which sometimes shows just a vertical slit of a pic, but I can't get at it to delete it. I suspect there is a frame which begins at foot of page 5 and extends down next page, but can't prove/find it. That would account for text not running to foot of page 5.
> Last, you could try this. Go to page 5, plant> your cursor in the base page text flow. Switch> to Text Editor view.THANK YOU SO MUCH, I THINK THIS HAS CRACKED IT!
I went to Copy Editor View (don't have Text Ed -- this is Ventura 10). I saw not only the whole text, but coding in red. Following where the text ends in problematic version, was about a yard of lines of red coding! I bravely deleted all that, and behold, all is well ... ! Wonderful! Very many thanks for pointing me to Copy Ed View!
> Can you see the remaining text? Usually the answer> is "yes." If so, cut and paste the text into a new~> publication with the same stylesheet.Now here I could still do with help. I used and reused stylesheets in my previous Ventura systems -- 4 and 5. But V10 doesn't seem to produce or offer them. Talk is all of templates, and I don't know how to apply a previously used what I would call stylesheet to a new publication. I'd love to learn that!
Hi Eric,
Just to say thank you once again for another very kind response. We're both very grateful to you for your time and help.
All best wishes from the UK,