Working with Text Flow

As mentioned earlier (see page 53), if text overflows its text frame, you can link the text into another frame.

To link text between frames:

1.	Click the overflow symbol. The cursor changes to the load text cursor . The load text cursor indicates that you can continue the overflow text in another frame.
2.	Move the cursor over to the frame you want to flow the text into. The cursor changes to the link text cursor . The link text cursor indicates you can click to fill the next frame with text. Tip Unlike with QuarkXPress, the second text frame does not have to be empty.
3.	Click in the text frame. The link indicators show that the text in the frame flows to or from another frame . The link indicators show that the text flows into and out of the text frame. Tip You can use the same steps to link empty text frames. This makes it easy to flow text into the layout later.

To change the link between frames:

1.	Click the link indicator in the frame where you want to break the link. The cursor turns into a link text cursor.
2.	Click in a new text frame to flow the text into a new frame. or Click inside the text frame to keep all the text within that frame. (The overflow symbol appears.)

InDesign also displays text threads, which show you the links between text frames.

To show the links between frames:

1.	Select the text frame that you want to see the links for.
2.	Choose View > Show Text Threads. This displays lines that show which frames are linked together . The text threads show the links between frames.