In article <53104.80.176.249.168.1233613326.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [Snip] > Exactly -- it did what you told it to. As I implied before, text in > auto-linked frames is not part of any particular page (except, arguably, > the very first page on which the frame occurs) -- it's only flowing > through it (in one end and out the other). It's like a garden with a > stream running through it -- you could move the static elements, such as > turf and plants (i.e. self-contained graphics and/or text frames) to > another plot, but although you could (somehow?!) move the bed of the > stream (auto-linked text frame) too, all the water (text) would run away > -- so Ovation Pro doesn't let you try. If you want to show someone > elsewhere the stream running through the garden you need to take a > picture of it at a particular point in time (save the page as drawfile > or PDF, or print, e.g. to PostScript.). > OK, silly analogy, but you might see what I mean. There are good reason > for not being able to copy auto-linked frames. It's more frustrating > when there are at least two frames linked to each other on a page, but > not back to the first, so there's no possibility of text flowing onto or > off that page, and yet it still won't let you copy them without > de-linking them first and re-linking afterwards. But, in all the years > I've been using Ovation Pro, that has very rarely happened, so for me it > doesn't register on the scale of irritation in comparison with other > things! > Peter Newble. For the way my brain works a very acceptable analogy. Remains the question thought, why the Alt Drag (Master frame not de-selected) didn't work? Copied nothing in my testing. Be this a bug of some sort? Dave S -- To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling