InDesign, Linked Text

[Ovaltine]

I tried searching through previous posts, but came up short.

If I wanted to link 1 text box with another text box either on another page, or on the same page, how could I do this in InDesign?

In Quark, I'd just get the link tool and click the 1st box, then the second box. But I have been unable to find a tool that looks like it might be a text link tool.

Also, I do not want to do this via a master page, I'm not dealing with a book, just a couple pages.

Thanks

[hewligan]

You don't need a special tool. In the bottom right corner of each text frame is a link box - a square above the resize handle. Click this with your selection tool, and your cursor will be "loaded" with the connection. Then click the text box you want to link to, or if you haven't created it yet, click to create the text box.

[Ovaltine]

THANK YOU. It was driving me nuts, and I couldn't find it in the CS2 manual. And I knew it had to be something simple. Oi!

[budafist]

Yup, and if you have a some linked text boxes already and you want to put a box before these, you click the small blue box near the start of the first text box and then click the new text box to link.

I hope that does make sense. It's like what Hewligan suggested but for linking previously

....Now I don't make sense...

[urstwile]

FYI, it's called threading text in the help. Which is probably why you couldn't find it. I know that one took me a while when I was transitioning from Quark.

[hewligan]

Sooooooooooo-o-oooo-o many things confused the hell out of me when I switched to Indy because they had different names.

Why can't they all just agree on what these things are called, and save my poor brain some strain?

[urstwile]

Yup, that was my biggest transitional issue. Thread text rather than link text boxes. Package rather than Collect for Output. Text wrap rather than Runaround. Stuff like that. That and the different way of working with picture frames (also, not picture boxes), in terms of the selection tool versus the direction tool, rather than the Item and Content tool.

Overall I'm used to it now, but the first coupla months were interesting, to say the least. :D