What you are describing sound exactly like the behavior of the "Balance columns" feature. Do you have that option selected in the Column Setup dialog?
-Fred Ridder > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:47:21 -0600 > From: maker at verizon.net > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Text Breaks Before End of Column > > Strangest behavior I have seen in a while: > > Using FM 10 in a Windows 7 environment. > > I am working in a large format: 22" W by 13" H. The landscape page layout has > three columns of equal width. > > I imported paragraph and character formats from an 8.5 x 11" document. I then > copied and pasted two pages of text, no graphics, from the same 8.5 x 11" > original into the landscape page. > > The text poured into all three columns, but it broke at 8" into each column, > leaving the bottom 5 inches of each column empty. I managed to get some of > the text at the top of the second column to backfill the bottom of the first > column: I put the cursor at the beginning of the second column and hit > Backspace. About 10 lines of text moved to the previous column, but there's > still room and I can't get any more of the text at the top of the second > column to move back: > > ---I've checked the "Keep with Next" and "Keep with Previous" settings; > they're not checked for anything. > > ---The "Start" setting is set to "Anywhere." > > ---Widow/orphan is set to 2 lines > > ---I didn't import the page layouts from the 8.5 x 11" original. > > What on earth is telling the text to break? > > Thanks for any and all suggestions, and happy Friday! > > --Nancy > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111216/cec05174/attachment.html>
