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Adding text frames - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2022 Essential Training
Adding text frames
- [Instructor] There are probably a few people who use InDesign for pictures only, but most of us need to put text on our pages. Well, you cannot have text without a text frame. And the simplest way to make a text frame is to use the Type tool. To demo the Type tool, I'm going to scroll over to the left a little bit using the grabber hand. That's option space bar on the Mac or alt space bar on Windows, and then just drag. Now I've got some space over here on the left, but it's all gray. To change that, I'll go to the view menu and I'm going to turn off match pasteboard to theme color. I just find this white background, this white pasteboard, a little bit easier to work with. Okay. Now, let's use the Type tool. I'll select it from the tool panel over here, and then I can simply click and drag. You'll notice that as I'm dragging, I get the measurements of that frame in a little field off to the right of the cursor.…
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New documents5m 34s
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Guides and measurements4m 46s
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Adding text frames5m 13s
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Typing and editing text3m 25s
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Choose a better workspace for editing4m 1s
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Applying basic text formatting5m 15s
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Importing graphics4m 48s
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Saving and reverting documents5m 34s
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