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224 Text Handling

Automatically flowing text areas
You can make a text area flow onto a new page
automatically when the text in it overflows. This
feature can be turned on for any text area and it is
on by default in the text areas in the COLUMN
templates available under "FILE" > "NEW".

To turn this feature on for a text area, click on the
black arrow at the bottom of the text area, and
select the AUTOMATICALLY CREATE NEW PAGES
option.

When a new page is created using this feature, it's
placed immediately following the current page. The
new page is just as it would be if you’d added it
manually (it will have the same background and
repeating objects of the current page). But in
addition it will also have a copy of each of the text
areas on the current page that are linked to the
current text flow and they will be linked together
similarly. So for example if you’re editing a 2
column page, the new page it flows into will be a
similar 2 column page.

Therefore you can continue entering text into the
text flow and new pages will be added as required
to accommodate it, just as in a word processor.
The text flows automatically from the top text area to
the bottom with both areas automatically linked.

Changing linked text areas together

Often your document will have similar layouts of text areas across multiple pages. If you
make a change to a text area on one page, you may want that same change to be
reflected for all similar areas in the same flow. So if you move or resize a text area and
there are similar areas in the same flow on other pages (that is, they have the same size
and position on the page) Designer Pro will ask you if you want to change those areas
too.
Note that if you choose not to have an area change applied to all similar areas in the
flow, the modified area will no longer match those in the rest of the flow. Therefore any
subsequent changes you make to that area will not trigger the prompt.