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017 When text disappears from a text frame

017 When text disappears from a text frame - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

017 When text disappears from a text frame

Anne-Marie Concepcion: I want to call this video "The case of the disappearing text!" Really, one of the most common and frequently asked questions that David and I get on InDesignSecrets is "how come I can't see my text?" Here is an actual reenactment of a typical file that a client sent us. I am going to scroll down here through this document and everything looks hunky-dory, right? And then suddenly, where is the text? What happened to the text? Why isn't it showing up? So they say that they've tried everything. It used to show and now it doesn't show. They don't know want they did to make it not show. So I'm going to take you through these diagnostic steps of detective InDesign Secrets because seriously this happens so often it's ridiculous. The first thing that I look at when somebody says "I can't see the rest of the text," my first suspect is a hidden character. The hidden character called break, one of those break characters, under here Type > Insert Break Character. Because it…

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