Thanks everyone for the input. Everyone offered the same basic solution, which worked fine, but was time-consuming.
I did learn a timesaving trick: p1 of each chapter was OK, so I could save a step: Instead of deleting ALL pages, I replaced the entire chapter content with an x (so p1 was not empty) and saved, thus deleting everything except p1, and the bad L&R pages with them. Then I selected my x and pasted the content back over it, which dutifully filled out the chapter and all was well for that chapter. Then, rather than repeat the process for 27 chapters, I had another idea. I noticed that the text flow behaved itself as long as it existed on the master page, but deleting it from the master page left it on the body page, and it was now isolated and unable to respond to master page tricks. The answer seemed to point to adjustment within the master page, but not deleting it, because master page deletion left body page orphans. So instead I worked with the master pages in one file: I shrank the two text frames in that flow (one on the L master page and one on the R) to 0.2 x 0.2 inches and slid it safely into the margin. Then I updated master pages on all the chapters and it worked - they still have that text flow, but it is invisible and harmless. Some day when Adobe comes up with a better solution I will deal with it, but for now it doesn't seem to be hurting anything. john From: Fred Ridder [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:50 PM To: John Sgammato; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: deleting orphaned text frames If all the text you want is in one flow, the solution is pretty easy. Just make a clean template file, then import the flow -- File>Import>File (by copying), specifying the flow you want to import -- from each legacy chapter file into a copy of the clean template. Everything that is not part of the imported flow will be left behind. -Fred Ridder ________________________________ Subject: deleting orphaned text frames Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:32:16 -0400 From: [email protected] To: framers at lists.frameusers.com I have a book (inherited from an outside source) with hundreds of pages of orphaned text frames, some alongside good text, some simply preventing a blank page from being deleted. I can delete them individually, but this will take ages. I want to delete all of them in one swell foop, if I can. The orphans are all in an isolated, empty text flow called Notes. They are found in 27 chapters. They do not appear on the chapter Master pages, so I can't simply delete them from one chapter's master pages and then import the page formats to the other chapters. Re-applying clean master pages does not exorcise these ghosts. Has anyone seen such behavior? Any suggestions for getting rid of these frames, or the whole Notes text flow? john _______________________________________________ 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.co m 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/20110331/c56176dc/attachment.html>
