Determine word and character counts, Working with additional languages – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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If Grids In Back is selected in Grids Preferences, then frame-based baseline grids take precedence over document-
based baseline grids. If Grids In Back is not selected, then document-based baseline grids take precedence over
frame-based baseline grids.
1 Choose View
> Grids & Guides
> Show Baseline Grid to display all baseline grids, including those in a text frame.
2 Select the text frame or place the insertion in a text frame, and then choose Object > Text Frame Options.
If you want the baseline grid to apply to all frames in a thread (even if one or more threaded frames do not include
text), place the insertion point in text, choose Edit > Select All, and then apply the baseline grid settings in the Text
Frame Options dialog box.
3 Click the Baseline Options tab.
4 Under Baseline Grid, select Use Custom Baseline Grid, and do any of the following:
Start
Type a value to offset the grid from the top of the page, the top margin of the page, the top of the frame, or the
top inset of the frame, depending on what you choose from the Relative To menu.
Relative To
Specify whether you want the baseline grid to begin relative to the top of the page, the top margin of the
page, the top of the text frame, or the top of the text frame inset.
Increment Every
Type a value for the spacing between grid lines. In most cases, type a value that equals your body text
leading, so that lines of text align perfectly to the grid.
Color
Select a color for the grid lines, or choose (Layer Color) to use the same color as the layer on which the text frame
appears.
If you can’t see the baseline grid in a text frame, choose View
> Grids & Guides > Show Baseline Grid to make sure
that baseline grids aren’t hidden. If the baseline grid still doesn’t appear, check the threshold for viewing baseline grids
in the Grids section of the Preferences dialog box. To see the grid, you might need to zoom in on the frame or reduce the
threshold level.
Determine word and character counts
1 Place the insertion point in a text frame to view counts for the entire thread of frames (the story), or select text to
view counts only for the selected text.
2 Choose Window
> Info to display the Info panel.
The Info panel displays the number of characters, words, lines, and paragraphs in a text frame. The position of the
insertion point within the text frame also appears.
See also
Working with additional languages
You can assign languages to different text. Assigning the appropriate language to text is especially useful for spell-
checking and hyphenating. (See “
If you need to work with Asian text, special versions of InDesign are available for Japanese, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, and Korean. These versions let you create layout grids and frame grids for composing multibyte
characters, and they include a number of features for formatting multibyte text, along with additional fonts.
Similarly, a special version of InDesign is available for formatting Middle Eastern languages, such as Hewbrew, Arabic,
Farsi, and Urdu, that use right-to-left text formatting. This version is called InDesign ME.
Updated 18 June 2009