Text Frame Issues

[Sam Neil]

Any idea why the text in the text frame gets jumbled up?

[MikeTO]

It's hard to tell without seeing the Layers panel, but could there be a second text frame under this one?

[Sam Neil]

Mike see attached.

[MikeTO]

There could still be another text frame in the Master A layer - you should expand Master A by clicking the > to its left to see what's there.

But the more likely issue is paragraph leading and paragraph spacing before/after are set to 0 so the line of text overlap. Check those values in Paragraph > Spacing.

Cheers

 

[Sam Neil]

There is nothing in the master A also the spacing is set to default

[GarryP]

I don’t think the Spacing setting shown in the menu in your screenshot if the “paragraph spacing” that MikeTO was talking about (also it’s set to “Use None”).

Try looking at the Leading Override setting in the Character Panel when you have the edit cursor in the text (or with the whole layer selected). If Leading Override is set to 0 then that’s probably what’s wrong.

[Sam Neil]

GarryP - Thank you - That seems to have done it!

Thank you Mike for your help

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

I’ve seen a few people have this problem, which seemingly comes out of nowhere at times, but I don’t know if there has been any concerted effort to find out if it’s user error (maybe accidentally changing the value using the mouse wheel over the field when intending to scroll the panel, or otherwise), or a bug in the software, or a bit of both, or something else.

The ‘fix’ is generally easy enough though, as you have seen.

[Sam Neil]

Indeed - Very odd and I cannot say for sure what I did to end up with the issue but thanks to you all sorted.

[GarryP]

Unfortunately this is one of those things where we would need to see it happening (and everything that has happened before it happens), and that might require the user to be recording the screen all the time they were using the software just in case it happens, and that’s not really practical.