<html><head><base href="x-msg://285/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>John,</div><div><br></div><div>Assuming the rest of the text is in a single text flow, you can do the following:</div><div><br></div><div>- select all of the main text and cut it out of the document</div><div>- select Special > Delete Pages (and delete all of the pages in the document)</div><div>- you'll now be on the master pages</div><div>- select View > Body Pages (OK the creation of a body page)</div><div>- put your cursor in the main text frame and paste</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Brad</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:32 PM, John Sgammato wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Chaparral Pro'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I have a book (inherited from an outside source) with hundreds of pages of orphaned text frames, some alongside good text, some simply preventing a blank page from being deleted. I can delete them individually, but this will take ages. I want to delete all of them in one swell foop, if I can.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The orphans are all in an isolated, empty text flow called Notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">They are found in 27 chapters.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">They do not appear on the chapter Master pages, so I can’t simply delete them from one chapter’s master pages and then import the page formats to the other chapters.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Re-applying clean master pages does not exorcise these ghosts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Has anyone seen such behavior? Any suggestions for getting rid of these frames, or the whole Notes text flow?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">john<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>You are currently subscribed to framers as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:brad@frameusers.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">brad@frameusers.com</a>.<br><br>Send list messages to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>.<br><br>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<br><a href="mailto:framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com</a><br>or visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/brad%40frameusers.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/brad%40frameusers.com</a><br><br>Send administrative questions to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:listadmin@frameusers.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">listadmin@frameusers.com</a>. 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