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Thanks a lot @Brian_J!

Hello, I’m writing a textbook, and there are a lot of graphical elements positioned within the text. I have three different colored sidebars with different content contained within (in short: ideas, elements, and definitions). I’m sending the manuscript off to agents now, and should I interest a publisher, I expect an editor to swoop in with suggestions for changes. When I edit the book, the text moves around the sidebars and pictures I’ve inserted. How do I make it so the other elements move with the text, instead of staying still while the text moves around them? Is it possible? Thanks for your help!

I just had to turn off text wrapping on the green box and make a second frame text box below where the main text resumes. It’s complicated but it works.

That won’t work because the green box is itself on top of the main body text, and turning off text wrap on the green box will cause the text of the main body to continue behind it. We have these boxes stacked on top of each other; in short, we have, from top to bottom in layer order: the blue box called ‘function’ (a text frame on top of a blue rectangle, grouped together with text wrapping turned on) the green box called ‘characters’ (a text frame on top of a green rectangle, grouped together with text wrapping turned on) the main body text (plain text frame, black and white - this is contained in the master page called “two normal pages”) I still appreciate the help, any other ideas?

Also, obviously it’s the text wrapping feature that’s causing the issue - here’s a picture of the box when I move it halfway on top of the other box. So how can I tweak the settings to get the text of the blue and green boxes to show while still leaving text wrapping on so that the text on the main page will wrap around it?

I remade the box from scratch and then it started working, but here’s the file. However, I’m certain that I had covered everything before I did that, so I thought it made sense to report it, thanks. Here’s the thread where I asked for help in a Facebook group: -I’m writing a textbook, and I have sidebars of different colors that mean different things, sort of like the “Dummies” books. There are three boxes, and I made them assets because I’m going to use them repeatedly throughout the book. I have one box called the idea box and it consists of a yellow rectangle, a text box on top of that, and a little graphic of a light bulb I drew. I have text wrapping turned on for the graphic, and the text in the text box beneath it is supposed to wrap around the light bulb. For some reason it doesn’t, as you can see. Do you see anything in the settings that I’ve done wrong? Seems to work for me, can you show your layers panel? Try rasterising your light bulb image layer, it is a transparent PNG. Tried it, it didn’t work. I think the text wrapping feature is buggy. I made the group again from scratch and it worked - sort of. As I was making it and changing the ‘distance from text’ to 2.5mm, and changing the wrap style, I noticed it happened again. I went through some undoes and it fixed itself when I undid changing the wrap style, although it should have worked. Also, after I added the group to assets, I noticed that the text wrap looked fine in the document but it was still messed up in the asset window thumbnail (see picture). Adventure assets.afpub

I’m writing a kids’ textbook and I have colored sidebars for different types of content, sort of like the ‘Dummies’ books. I have three different color boxes (green, orange, blue) for different kinds of content in the sidebar. Each box has a colored rectangle with a frame text box on top of it, and they’re grouped and saved as assets. In a few instances in the book, I want to put one of these boxes on top of another box. When I do this the text from the box on top disappears, as you can see in the pictures. Any ideas as to why this happens, and how to fix it? Thanks for your help.

I’m writing a textbook, and I have sidebars of different colors that mean different things, sort of like the “Dummies” books. There are three boxes, and I made them assets because I’m going to use them repeatedly throughout the book. I have one box called the idea box and it consists of a yellow rectangle, a text box on top of that, and a little graphic of a light bulb I drew. I have text wrapping turned on for the graphic, and the text in the text box beneath it is supposed to wrap around the light bulb. For some reason it doesn’t, as you can see.