MorporkUK Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Quick question: How do I make Publisher always show all the text box frames on a page I'm working on, even if I'm not working in that particular text box? I'm used to always seeing these frames in ID and – back in the day – QuarkExpress (showing my age!). In Publisher, when I start working in a text frame (say, the body text frame), all the other text box frames I've set up (headline, pic captions etc) disappear (not the text, just the frames). I'd like to see them. Probably something I missed in the tutorial vids... Enlightenment greatly received. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Perhaps: View > Show Text Flow Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Or, you can set Preview Mode to OFF, see attached video. 2020-07-10 08-26-24.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorporkUK Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 Thanks Garry P and Walt. I didn't really explain well what I meant, but I can see now that actually my question was about unexpected behaviour in Publisher compared with ID, which I've used for many years. With Preview set to Off, I see all the picture and text frames, gutters in text boxes etc, as I would see in ID working in Normal mode. What threw me was that as soon as I started typing in a text box, all those other frames would disappear, which I wasn't expecting (since they all remain visible in ID Normal mode). They all reappear when I click out of the text box I've been amending. I can certainly live with that – like the past, Publisher is another country and they do things differently there! I'm trying to get all my ID vs Publisher queries cleared up before I cancel my Adobe subscription and stick with the Affinity programs for good. jmwellborn and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.