Four Column Text Box Greyed Out

[DavidSilverSteel]

I have a five page document in AF Publisher consisting of one full page four column text box on each page. On layers above the text boxes I have photo frames, each in it's own text box for photo captions. On four pages this works ok, but on one page, all the text in the four column text box is greyed out. I can edit the text in the greyed out section, and text flows through it from previous text boxes, but I cannot see any reason why it should be greyed out.

If I export the whole document to a PDF, the text is still greyed out on that one page. 

Any suggestions as to what I have done wrong?

David

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, DavidSilverSteel said:

Any suggestions as to what I have done wrong?

If you click in that page's Text Frame using the Move Tool or the Frame Text Tool, and look at the font description in the Context menubar, what do you see for the Fill color? How does it compare with the Fill on the other pages?

(Note: I assumed here that you meant the text color is wrong; if you meant something else please provide a screenshot.)

[DavidSilverSteel]

Thank you Walt for your reply. 

First of all, yes it was the text font that showed up grey, yet the frame of the text worked flawlessly. The text flowed through it. The text colour showed a black fill with no line colour, exactly as all the other frames. selecting the frame showed it as a blue (selected) frame and I was able to edit the text.

Thinking through the history of this problem, this was my first use of multi column text frames with flowing text in them. When I started the document, I made two master pages, one called Master A and the second was called "Four column" as the MASTER contained a four column text frame. As I went along, I decided that it was more convenient to have just one master page - Master A without the text frame, - and to create a text frame on each normal page as I created them. Today I decided that this was the root of the problem as I had deleted the "Four Column" master page and applied all the pages to Master A.

I guessed that the text frame on the faulty page had an (invisible and defunct) link to the - now - non existent "Four Column" Master page which was causing it to be greyed out.  I therefore deleted the faulty frame, the text flowed straight to the next page and I created a replacement four column frame direct on to the normal page. This has solved all the problems with the document and I presume that I had diagnosed the problem correctly.

Thank you for your help and interest in my problem.

Kind Regards and a Happy New Year to you.

David