Content disappears after importing new page

[KelRao]

Hello all,

I created a 3 page document in Publisher using custom para/character styles (such a cool feature). 

Separately, I created a cover page using no custom styles.

When I add from Files my cover page to the 3 page document, all of the content is gone on those 3 pages (photos remain) (my cover page is intact).  

This one has me perplexed!

[KelRao]

Sure I can do that!  They are in mock up stage at this point.  

new-cover.afpub new-interior.afpub

[KelRao]

17 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:

I've seen the files. I'm not sure what you are trying to do.

WhenI have the new-interior open, then try to add from Files the cover, the content on the new interior disappears.  Photos stay.  I am reworking the Master Page -- I think that's the issue.

[h_d]

The reason is that your two text frames are on Master A: that's why they have crosses in the corners and you can't change their shapes or delete them. But the text is local to page 1 of the document. When you add a page at the beginning of new-interior.afpub (either your cover or just a blank page), your original page 1 (a right) becomes page 2 (a left). The frames on the subsequent pages are re-created from the elements on Master A, but the text has nowhere to go. The images are on the local page, not the master, so they survive the insertion.

One solution:

Before you add the new page, click on the left-hand text frame. Pull down the Layers menu, choose Master Page - Edit detached. Cut the text frame from inside the Master-A - Right group of layers and paste it into the local page layers. Repeat with the right-hand text frame. You'll get something like this:

 

Now you can insert your cover page at the beginning of the document, and the text frames will behave in the same way as the images - they'll be transferred to page 2:

 

For a more permanent solution, use master pages for master elements (like page numbers and the horizontal bars) and draw local frames for local text.

 

[KelRao]

4 minutes ago, h_d said:

The reason is that your two text frames are on Master A: that's why they have crosses in the corners and you can't change their shapes or delete them. But the text is local to page 1 of the document. When you add a page at the beginning of new-interior.afpub (either your cover or just a blank page), your original page 1 (a right) becomes page 2 (a left). The frames on the subsequent pages are re-created from the elements on Master A, but the text has nowhere to go. The images are on the local page, not the master, so they survive the insertion.

One solution:

Before you add the new page, click on the left-hand text frame. Pull down the Layers menu, choose Master Page - Edit detached. Cut the text frame from inside the Master-A - Right group of layers and paste it into the local page layers. Repeat with the right-hand text frame. You'll get something like this:

 

Now you can insert your cover page at the beginning of the document, and the text frames will behave in the same way as the images - they'll be transferred to page 2:

 

For a more permanent solution, use master pages for master elements (like page numbers and the horizontal bars) and draw local frames for local text.

 

Thank you very much!  I kind of figured it was my text boxes on my Master.  Appreciate your confirming my mistake.  Onward!

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, KelRao said:

Thank you very much!  I kind of figured it was my text boxes on my Master.  Appreciate your confirming my mistake.  Onward!

Your unlinked text frames on the Master would be part of the problem.

[KelRao]

5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Your unlinked text frames on the Master would be part of the problem.

Indeed!  All fixed now.  Thank you.