wiki:ITERATION_12/Release/UserDocumentation/SophieAuthor/04_WorkingWithText/02_ChainingText
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4.2. Chaining text frames

Text frames also have a chain halo at the bottom right corner of the frame. Clicking on it opens the chain HUD, which looks like this.

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The drop-down menu will allow you to select any frame on the page; when a frame is chained to another frame, text flows from the first frame to the second frame when there's no more room in the first frame. (In coming releases of Sophie, you'll be able to chain text frames that are on different pages; for now, this functionality is limited to frames on the same page.) When a frame is chained to another frame, the chain halo turns into the unchain halo:

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When this halo is clicked, the frame is unchained from the frame it was chained to; the chain HUD can be used to select another frame to chain.

If you click the Autochain button, Sophie will automatically create new pages that contain frames chained to the current frames. The new frames will have the same properties as the current frame.