Disappearing Text in Anchored Frames

[Combs, Richard]

Joseph.Carver at vsea.com wrote:
 
> Text placed into an anchored frame that has a carriage return loses the
> first character when the doc is saved.
> 
> Actions:
>         1) Create anchored frame
>         2) Import a graphic or two
>         3) Label the graphic
>                 >> Graphics
>                >> Tools
>                >> Click the "A"
>                >> Position cursor
>                >> Type some text
>                >> Hit Enter key
>                 >> Type another line
>                 >> Save doc
>                         >> First character vaporizes from "another
> line"
> 
> Consistently across two versions of Windows, and on a few different
> machines, the first character of the second line simply disappears.
> Saving the doc. triggers the action.
> If additional lines are added with a carriage return, they too will
> lose that first character when the doc. is saved.
> This does not occur with Frame 8. It is very repeatable.
> 
> Are there any workarounds for this, or is it just a known "feature"?

That certainly sounds like a bug. But the solution is simple enough, and best practice in any case: For multiple lines of text, don't use the Text Line tool. Instead, insert a Text Frame (the icon to the left of the "A" in the Tools Palette) and enter your text in that. 

This has several advantages, including the ability to apply a paragraph format and to treat the entire block of text as a single object. A Text Line is basically a graphic object, and when you press Enter, you're actually creating a second, completely separate Text Line object. It moves independently of the first, is formatted independently, and is in no way connected to the first. A Text Frame containing one or more paragraphs is much easier to manage than multiple Text Lines. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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