September 30, 2011

Unlink Text Threads in Indesign

In Indesign you can flow text from one text box to another which allows the story to dynamically move as you add or remove text. If you decide that you don't want the text boxes to be linked, here is how to unlink the text boxes, or unflow the text.

1) Select at least one of the text boxes that contains flowing text.

2) Go to Window > Utilities > Scripts

3) In the Scripts panel navigate to Application > Samples > JavaScript > SplitStory.jsx
Double-click on the "SplitStory.jsx" text.

4) Your text will now live within its current box. It will not flow from one to the other.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much!!!!

Jennifer brown said...

I'm glad this helped you out!

orepas said...

unlink a story in 2 parts ?

Let's say I have a 600 pages document all pages linked .
How do i split my document so that 300 pages are linked together
and an independent part II of the rest pages are linked together ?


I came accross with the script SplitStory but that unlinks a single page text frame, but I might be wrong on that script.

Thanks in advance

celeryheArts said...

Thank you! That was so easy, and will be so helpful!

Jennifer brown said...

I hope it works out for you! That script is hidden in the pallets menus, but works wonderfully!

Anonymous said...

Thank you! Great help!

Anonymous said...

Hi!

"orepas said...
unlink a story in 2 parts ?

Let's say I have a 600 pages document all pages linked .
How do i split my document so that 300 pages are linked together
and an independent part II of the rest pages are linked together ?


I came accross with the script SplitStory but that unlinks a single page text frame, but I might be wrong on that script.

Thanks in advance"

I guess you already solved this, but just in case it works for somebody else: don't use the apple scripts but the java scripts. This helped me unlink a huge amount of text thread in two :)

Anonymous said...

thank you! it's very helpful!

Unknown said...

I found your explanation crystal clear, and it worked. Thank you sooo much.