Type won't go to the next line. Please help!

Question

Everytime I create a text box in Indesign and start typing; instead of going to the next line, the text disappears and the little red box shows up. The text box is big enough, the text just won't go to the next line. Can someone please help me?

Answer 1

And presumably when you say "won't go to the next line" you mean it doesn't wrap onto the next line on its own as you type, and not that you are pressing enter and it suddenly disappears? If it's failure to wrap and the frame is deep enough for another line, then it's either No Break, or you have hyphenation disabled and are typing non-breaking spaces (but that takes more effort to do than accidentally setting No Break as the default so is less likely).
If the frame is not deep enough for an additional line, it's what Nini said, but if it's really that you are pressing the Enter key and it goes into overset it means you are either pressing the Enter key on the number pad, which inserts a column break by default, or you are one of those unfortunate souls (mostly PC laptop users) whose keyboard maps both enter keys together. Toggling numlock on such machines usually also toggles between paragraph and column breaks, but it's annoying and you might want to edit the shorcuts if this affects you.