Suggestion, for text box: have the ability to input the size of the text box, height and width. Yes you can go to VIEW→STUDIO→TEXT FRAME; however, this only provides the width, outline, fill, and others attributes of the text box not the height or location of the text box on the page.
And for some reason in the beta, all the master page attributes’ that you assign for a text box are not ‘passed’ along to the pages when you apply the master page to the pages either by right clicking on the master page; APPLY MASTER→ALL PAGES→REPLACE EXSITING→OK; or selecting all the pages right click; APPLY MASTER→SPECIFIC PAGES→REPLACE EXSITING→OK.