It's unclear from your description if the problems are occurring only
on the Master page or on Body pages generated from it...
Rotated containers tend to be a bit problematic (IMHO) in that I
usually have to un-rotate them to do much actual work in them.
Do any of the problems disappear if you make the text container
horizontal again?
Art
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Heidi Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry for the long subject title, but this one is a bit hard to
> summarise.
>
> Windows XP, SP3, FM8p277.
> This was all re-installed in the last few days, thanks to my PC
> self-destructing. The problems existed before the crash and are just as
> annoying now.
>
> I have a vertical text frame on each master page (horizontal text frame
> rotated through 90Deg), which I use for watermarking. The text frame has
> a single paragraph (with tag Watermark applied).
> The paragraph contains a single-word variable (called Watermark), which
> says something like "Draft" or "Approval".
> The variable should have condition Watermark applied, which I can then
> hide or show as needed.
>
> In some of my documents, and now all of my template files, The watermark
> text frame misbehaves, particularly when placed on the LEFT of a page
> (not so much when it's on the right). Experimentation by someone with a
> great deal of patience reveals that the problem arises if the text frame
> is within 2.75 inches of the left margin.
>
> The misbehaviour is manifested as:
>
> -Text frame on LEFT of page: When trying to hide conditionalised
> variable text, the variable is completely deleted, or the condition is
> removed and the text not hidden.
>
> -Text frame on LEFT of page: When trying to select the variable, you
> cannot single-click it to select, nor double-click it to open the
> Variables dialog box. You can select the whole paragraph by
> triple-clicking, but I usually only want to select the variable. You can
> select the variable (according to my patient friend) by placing the
> cursor before the variable, then holding dhow Shift + pressing the right
> arrow key.
>
> -Text frame on RIGHT of page: Works perfectly normally when it comes to
> selecting. However, the removal of condition and/or variable does
> sometimes happen.
>
> I can send anyone willing to look at it a copy of misbehaving file. But
> if you have any idea of what to check, please let me know. Various
> things have been tried (such as turning off sidehead area, changing size
> of text frame and paragraph text, moving text frame to where things
> start to work again...).
>
> All help gratefully received!
> Cheers,
>
> Heidi Bailey
> Technical Author
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