Text in In-Design is contained within text frames. In many cases the amount of text in a particular story is too long to be held in a single frame, and so has to be split into several. For this to work properly, the frames need to be threaded together so that text which 'falls off' the end of the first frame in the sequence appears at the top of the second, and so on. This ensures that no text is lost between frames during editing (e.g. if a few words are added to the first paragraph of a story).
[See section on 'Getting Text' before reading this section]
If the text you are placing will not fit into the first text frame, an 'overset text' indicator will appear at the bottom right of the frame:
Click on this to produce a second text-placement icon 
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and create another text frame. Continue this process until all the text in
the story has been placed. You can place the text on different pages if you
wish (see 'Multiple Pages'). All text frames created in this way will be automatically
threaded together.
Threaded text frames have specific indicators at top left and/or bottom right to show that they are part of a thread. These are known as the in and out ports of the frame.
The diagram below shows a page containing three threaded text frames (with all frames selected).
To make the frame sequence visible, select 'View/Show Text Threads' which will produce a display like this:
Click on the out port of the first frame. You will get a text placement icon. If
you then hover over another frame this icon changes to a thread icon 
.
Click anywhere in the second frame to thread it to the first. This can be done
whether or not the frames contain any text.
Click on the inport or the out port of the frame (depending on whether you
want to break the in-thread or the out-thread). Hover over the frame itself
and you will get the unthread icon 
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Click once anywhere inside the frame to break the thread. Note that this will not split the text into individual frames. All text after the frame which has been unthreaded becomes 'overset' and must be placed anew.
To isolate a frame within a thread including its text contents, you will need to cut and paste the text both before and after the frame you want. Use Ctrl-Shift-Home or Ctrl-Shift-End (or the MAC equivalents) to select the text to the beginning or end and then cut and paste into a new set of frames.
If you have constructed a number of empty frames and pre-threaded them together, a story placed into any of the frames will begin in the first frame in the sequence and continue on through until either the text or the frames run out.
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