Autoflowing multiple text boxes

I'm working on a long document (400 pages) that contains two areas of text not linked on every page.

If I had just a text box with overflow text, indesign creates all the necessary pages with linked text boxes.


I have done several times before.

But there is a second box on every page, also with overlowing content that should flow to the corresponding box in the following pages.

I'm hoping to avoid manually linking this second box to all subsequent.

Is this possible?

This question is clear?

Thank you!!!

Jack

File > Place...  Choose file 1 (or two files if they are in the same folder). Go to the page where you want to start. If it uses the same template as the rest of the pages to add, not replace, hold down the SHIFT key and click inside the main frame of this story. New pages will be added based on this mask, so they will already contain frames for the second story on the master page. Place history NDDN similarly on the first page of holing the SHIFT key.

If you need to have a real parallel flow with several paragraphs of different lengths on the same page, for example, with all the numbers, aligned with the first line of each paragraph of the text, it's a little harder to achieve. Much easier if each page contains only a single set that you can use options keep paragraph style to force everyone starting on the next page.

For several paragraphs, it would be easier to use anchored objects to maintain numbers, but there is no way anchored thread frames. It is possible to use the data merge, too, if no paragraph must cross a page boundary. More details on the project would help us find a good solution.

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