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Create document for book

You can't wait to import your text into the document and start working with it? Just a moment, please. You have a two page document with two empty text frames now, and you probably feel that we have proceeded in a very structured manner, but, so far, nothing has happened at all.

We would like to prepare things in order to let the text flow automatically from one text frame to another when it is imported later. This is no big deal, but you have to do it.

Select the left text frame and do a [Ctrl]-click on the piping knob at the left frame border. You will then see a context menu, where you can only select one menu item. Please click on the menu item Automatic Content Piping from Previous Page.

Now do a [Ctrl]-click on the piping knob at the right frame border of the same text frame. Switch on the menu item Automatic Content Piping to Next Page.

Please repeat these steps for the text frame in the right document page.

You have now adjusted the two text frames to be not only linked to each other, but also linked with other text frames automatically when you add more pages that have text frames prepared like these. So let's do it right now.

Select the Page inspector, and choose the action menu item Insert New Pages, or click on the [+] button in the Page inspector. You will then see the dialog Insert Pages. Take a moment to become familiar with the parameters of this dialog.

Assume your book will grow up to about 128 pages. So please change the number of new pages to 128, which should be inserted behind page 2, of course. Leave all other parameters unchanged, but switch on the check box Use layout (from pages: 1 – 2). This is a magical switch. In a few seconds, you will see why.

After you have closed the dialog with [OK], 128 new pages are added to the document immediately. You will not only find the desired text frames in all new pages at their proper position, but all text frames in the whole document are already linked, frame to frame, page to page. Almost perfect conditions for importing the text into your document now. Do you agree?