Text wrapping to next column before hitting the bottom of the current column

[derekkinsman]

M1 MacOS Monterey (12.4), Publisher 1.10.5.

I've attached some screenshots, but the gist of it is that a body of text will wrap from one column to the next before reaching the bottom and any attempt to force that wrapped text back will cause the next line to wrap forward instead. In the screenshots you can see Column 1 goes all the way to the bottom, Column 2 wraps with one line of space available, Column 3 (second screenshot) has that single line, at the top of the next page now, that should be at the bottom of Column 2. If I do something like set the tracking on the paragraph really tightly to pull that Column 3 text back across to column 2 the current bottom line from Column 2 ("first design for…") will instead move over to the top of Column 3, leaving even more space at the bottom of Column 2. All the text in the document is being controlled with text styles and there isn't any accidental line heights or paragraph spacing happening. And it's happening randomly through the full document. The source of the text was originally a Word docx file, but even backspacing the text and manually typing it out in Publisher has no effect.

[Dan C]

Hi @derekkinsman,

There are a few options which may be affecting this, most likely the Columns settings in the Text Frame Studio and the Flow Options in the Paragraph Studio -

Can you please provide a copy of your .afpub file here, or alternatively a screenshot showing your settings in the above 2 Studios?

Many thanks in advance

[derekkinsman]

@Dan C omg, you're a hero. It was the "Keep with next: N⇅ lines" option that was causing it. Mine had defaulted to 1. I somewhat assumed that was disabled/required one of the above options being enabled due to it being right aligned while the other options were left aligned. But it's fixed now. Thanks for the quick reply!

Be well.

[Dan C]

You're certainly welcome, I'm glad to hear this helped