Creating text and text frames, Create text frames – Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual
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Double-click the InDesign document containing the grid formats you want to import.
When you import a grid format from another document that has the same name as a grid format in the current
document, the existing grid format in the import destination will be overwritten, and when this grid format is applied
the grid format for all the frame grids will be changed.
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Creating text and text frames
Create text frames
Text in InDesign resides inside containers called text frames. (A text frame is similar to a text box in QuarkXPress and
a text block in Adobe PageMaker.)
There are two types of text frames: frame grids and plain text frames. Frame grids are the kind of text frames specific to
Asian-language composition in which character emboxes and spacing are displayed as grids. Empty text frames in
which no grid is displayed are plain text frames.
Like graphics frames, text frames can be moved, resized, and changed. The tool with which you select a text frame
determines the kind of changes you can make:
• Use the Type tool
to enter or edit text in a frame.
• Use the Selection tool for general layout tasks such as positioning and sizing a frame.
• Use the Direct Selection tool
to alter a frame’s shape.
• Use the Horizontal Grid tool
or the Vertical Grid tool
to create a frame grid. See
• Use the Type tool
to create a plain text frame for horizontal text, and the Vertical Type tool
to create a plain
text frame for vertical text. Use the same tools to edit existing text in a frame.
Text frames can also be connected to other text frames so that the text in one frame can flow into another frame. Frames
that are connected in this way are threaded. Text that flows through one or more threaded frames is called a story. When
you place (import) a word-processing file, it comes into your document as a single story, regardless of the number of
frames it may occupy.
Text frames can have multiple columns. Text frames can be based on, yet independent of, page columns. In other words,
a two-column text frame can sit on a four-column page. Text frames can also be placed on master pages and still receive
text on document pages.
If you use the same type of text frame repeatedly, you can create an object style that includes text frame formatting such
as stroke and fill colors, text frame options, and text wrap and transparency effects.
When you place or paste text, you don’t need to create a text frame; InDesign automatically adds frames based on the
page’s column settings.