Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 290)

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Insert placeholder text
InDesign can add placeholder text that you can easily replace with real text later. Adding placeholder text can give you a more complete sense of
your document’s design.
1. Use the Selection tool to select one or more text frames, or use the Type tool to click in a text frame.
2. Choose Type > Fill With Placeholder Text.
If you add placeholder text to a frame that’s threaded to other frames, the placeholder text is added at the start of the first text frame (if all frames
are empty) or at the end of the existing text (if some text is already in the threaded frames), through to the end of the last threaded frame.
To remove or replace placeholder text, double-click in any frame in the thread, choose Edit > Select All, and then delete the text.
To change the text that is used as placeholder text, create a text file with the text you wish to use, name it Placeholder.txt, and save it in the
application folder.
Paste text
If the insertion point is not inside a text frame when you paste text into InDesign, a new plain text frame will be created. If the insertion point is
inside a text frame, the text will be pasted inside that frame. If you have text selected when you paste, the pasted text will overwrite the selected
text.
Paste text from another application
1. To preserve formatting and information such as styles and index markers, open the Clipboard Handling section of the Preferences dialog
box, and select All Information under Paste. To remove these items and other formatting when pasting, select Text Only.
2. Cut or copy text in another application or in an InDesign document.
3. If you like, select text or click in a text frame. Otherwise, the text will be pasted into its own new frame.
4. Do one of the following:
Choose Edit > Paste. If the pasted text doesn’t include all the formatting, you may need to change settings in the Import Options dialog
box for RTF documents.
Choose Edit > Paste Without Formatting. (Paste Without Formatting is dimmed if you paste text from another application when Text Only
is selected in Clipboard Handling Preferences.)
You can also drag text from another application and drop it into an InDesign document, or you can insert a text file or word-processing file into
an InDesign document directly from Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder. The text will be added to a new frame. Shift-dragging removes the
formatting. The option you select in the Clipboard Handling section of the Preferences dialog box determines whether information such as index
markers and swatches is preserved.
Adjust spacing automatically when pasting text
When you paste text, spaces can be automatically added or removed, depending on the context. For example, if you cut a word and then paste it
between two words, a space appears before and after the word. If you paste that word at the end of a sentence, before the period, a space is not
added.
This feature is used primarily for working with Roman text. Also, this feature is available only when the Roman text to be pasted is set to a
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