Importing text

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

I would like to suggest some other ways of importing text in Publisher:

1. "Primary Text frame" (IInDesign) and "Automatic Text Box" (Quark) which are useful for long documents (books, manuals...), by creating an empty text frame with blinking cursor ready for importing text;
2. Four other options appropriate mostly for fixed lenght materials (magazines, brochures...) which are explained in the attached file.

BTW, your approach is the same as the first one explained in this fragment and the other 3 are extremly useful, too.

The Non-Designer's InDesign Book - Williams R. (Peachpit, 2012) - p. 29.pdf

[Petar Petrenko]

Here is another option which can't be found in InDesign or Quark and it is must have. It is a combination of automatic and semiautomatic text flow (see attachment) and it can be usefull for multi-language documents:

1. <CTRL> + <SHIFT> + click on odd page (facing pages) will automatically create additional pages and populate only the odd pages;
2. <CTRL> + <SHIFT> + click on specific column (multi-column page) will create additional pages and populate the same columns.

All other combinations should be the same as InDesign's.