Chapter 5: text, Creating text and text frames, Create text frames – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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Last updated 11/16/2011
Chapter 5: Text
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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
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:
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Use the Type tool
to enter or edit text in a frame.
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Use the Selection tool
for general layout tasks such as positioning and sizing a frame.
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Use the Direct Selection tool
to alter a frame’s shape.
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.
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Do any of the following:
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Select the Type tool
, and then drag to define the width and height of a new text frame. Hold down Shift as you
drag to constrain the frame to a square. When you release the mouse button, a text insertion point appears in the
frame.
Dragging to create new text frame
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Using the Selection tool, click the in port or out port of another text frame, and then click or drag to create another
frame.