Flowing Text Among Text Boxes

You can position a long story in a publication by using two or more connected text boxes that allow the story to flow from one text box to another. In that way, you can continue a story from one side of a page to the other, from one sidebar to the next, or from one page to another. You can use the AutoFlow feature to automatically flow text that’s too long for one text box into the next one, or you can flow the text manually by connecting the text boxes that will contain the rest of your story.

AutoFlow the Text

  1. Copy the text of your story (press Ctrl+C) from its source—a Word document, for example.

  2. With your publication ...

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