General rules for editing text

About the template text strategy

• Placeholder text or text that should be reviewed is displayed as pink. This color is controlled by a character style,
  !Pink - edits needed.
  • In more complex templates, like Challenge Defining and Insight Report, the pink text is only used on pages that always use the same layout and similar content. Other pages may include placeholder text (gibberish or examples).

Directions

1. Open the document's content and have it readily available.
2. Going section by section, copy the content, select the template content to be replaced, and paste the content into the InDesign document. 
   • The new text will inherit the styles of the text it replaced. 

To remove the pink color from the text, open the Character Styles panel and change the style to None or [None]. Do not manually change the color.

If the text does not quite fit in the provided text boxes, a small red + will appear in the lower right corner of the text frame. This remaining unseen text is called overset text. See Correcting Overset Text for strategies for dealing with overset text.

About threaded text

The text in a frame can be independent of other frames or flow between connected frames. Connected frames can be on the same page or spread or on another page in the document. In DORIS documents, text frames are connected in the same section, challenge, or solution.

Each text frame contains an in port and an out port, which are used to make connections to other text frames. An empty in port or out port indicates the beginning or end of a story, respectively. An arrow in a port indicates that the frame is linked to another frame. A red plus sign (+) in an out port indicates that there is more text in the story to be placed but no more text frames in which to place it. 

A. In port at the beginning of story B. Out port indicating thread to next frame C. Text thread D. In port indicating thread from previous frame E. Out port indicating overset text 

Choose View > Extras > Show Text Threads to see visual representatives of threaded frames. You can thread text frames whether or not they contain text.