How to wrap around whole page textboxes?

[The Famous Eccles]

In some documents (e.g. thesis), illustrations with their accompanying
legends must be on separate pages. I understand how to set up an illustration
with its legend in a textbox, to position it on a page, and to have text wrap
around it. However, I cannot figure out how to have the textbox be the SOLE
element on a page with the main body of the text wrapping past it
automatically from page -1 to page +1 (relative to the textbox). The problem
seems to be that textboxes require anchoring to a paragraph and so at least
one line gets dragged in behind the textbox onto the page. Is there a
solution or another method that will permit something to be set aside on a
dedicated page and have the rest of the text wrap past it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You have summed this up accurately. Wrapped objects must be anchored to a
text paragraph, so you cannot wrap text around an entire page. Since you
can't wrap it this way anyway, there's not much point in wrapping it at all.
The best approach is to insert placeholders for the illustrations (such as
"[Figure 1 goes here]"). Then, when editing is complete and you know the
pagination will not change, go back and insert the illustrations. I
sometimes use borderless tables to hold the figures and captions, but that's
not strictly necessary unless the figures vary in size but you want the
captions to be in the same place on every page.

The trick is to make the text appear to wrap around the illustration. It is
easier if the text is not justified, but it's doable either way. You have
to:

1. Insert a page break at the end of the page before the illustration (let's
call it A).

2. Insert the illustration and caption, followed by another page break
(we'll call this page B and the following one C).

3. If the text is justified, you'll need to insert a line break at the end
of the text on page A. This will push the paragraph mark onto the next page.
Select the paragraph mark and format the font size as 1 point. If this
doesn't suffice, format it as Hidden.

4. If your paragraphs have a first-line indent, then the first line on page
C will have an indent (because it's now the beginning of a paragraph). Apply
an unindented Body Text style instead of Body Text First Indent.

Obviously, if the bottom of page A coincides with the end of a paragraph,
this eliminates a lot of tweaking.