Linking text boxes dynamically

I'm working on the layout of a large (more than 2,000 page) document. Each page has two text boxes that together fill the entire page. The top text box contains the document text and the bottom text box contains footnote material. I'd like to be able to link the two text boxes together so that whenever I re-size one of the text boxes, the other box dynamically re-sizes to fit the remaining space on the page. Does that make sense? Is that something I can do in InDesign CS3 on my Mac?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mark

You don't necessarily need to link them.
Make the top text frame the full page height.
Make the bottom one the average text height, and apply a text wrap it it.
When you resize the bottom one, the text in the top one will reflow due
to the text wrap.
Harbs

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