Unwanted side head formatting in text frames

In my document, I use many text frames within anchored frames. Without my knowledge of having done anything, all of my text frames now have side heads within them. So all of the text that I entered has disappeared. See example below.
I can see it if I stretch the text frame large enough. See below:
Now, when I create new text frames with text within them, they look fine. They maintain their proper formatting. But all of the ones created before a few days ago look like above.
In addition, the footer changed formatting w/o my doing anything. The left side of the footer moved in to the left to the column margin, as if there was supposed to be a side head in the formatting of the footer text box. I imported page formatting from another document and this problem corrected itself.
Thank you.

This has happened,
heck still happens to me.
(more than once)
even today, to ONE chapter of a 14+chapter document..
I too did not CHANGE any of my settings, it just decided it wanted my text boxes to have side headers.
(which is why I found your question while trying to find an answer.)
The fastest way I have found SO FAR to fix it, is to
Select each text box,
Right Click
Object Properties
The Text Frame Properties box shows up, and it has a check box in the Flow -Room for Side Heads pane.
Now, I have no idea why, but my FM11 decided that it wanted 1.5" with .25gap on my text boxes.
I had to un-check, and Apply.
but it was easier than copying the information and putting it in a new text box, (which oddly enough, also works... )

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Message was edited by: borealforest

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Tim
You can manually connect text frames on body pages, or on master pages, that have the same flow tag. Search Google for "framemaker connect text frames" without quotes.
For the text to flow automatically from one body-page text frame to a body-page text frame on another, and create new pages as needed, the text frames need to be on master pages, have the Autoconnect property turned on, and be in the same text flow. FrameMaker only applies Left and Right master pages (you get them if your document is set for facing page.) To apply custom master pages instead of Left and Right, you need to set up a mapping table on a reference page for use with the Apply Master Pages feature. Search Google for "framemaker apply master pages mapping table" without quotes.
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Peter
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