How to Connect Text Paragraphs in InDesign
In InDesign, Adobe's desktop publishing program, you must place sentences, paragraphs and other longer blocks of texts into boxes known as text frames. Once you have created your text frames, you can freely manipulate their placement and arrangement. If you are laying out a newsletter, magazine or other publication that features extensive text, you may find that you need to make the text from one frame spill into another. To do so, you must connect your text frames.
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Instructions
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Adding New Frames
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Select the text frame that you want to connect to a new one by hovering your cursor over it.
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Click the in port, indicated by a rightward facing black arrow in top left of the frame, to add a new frame before the current frame or the out port, which appears as a black plus sign in the bottom right of the frame, to insert a frame after the current one.
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Move the cursor to the place where you want your new frame, then click and release to make the new frame appear. The new frame is automatically linked to the old one, and any words you type that exceed the amount of space available in the first will automatically spill over into the second.
Connecting Existing Frames
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Select the text frame to connect another existing frame.
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Click the in port to make the current frame follow the other or the out port to make it precede it.
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Click the existing frame you want to connect your other frame to. The two frames are now connected, and any extra text will flow continuously from one into the next.
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