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Adding or editing text

Adding or editing text

- [Instructor] Okay, we have our document open, but we have a problem. It's mostly empty. Empty document not good. So let's see how we can get some text in here. The main tool in InDesign for manipulating text is the Type tool. That's the one in the Tool panel with a little T on it. The Type tool lets us do two things in InDesign. It lets you create text frames, that is frames that are going to contain text, and it also lets you edit the text inside those frames. So first, let's take that Type tool and drag out a rectangle over here in the middle. When you let go of the mouse button, you'll see that the Type tool created a text frame and the text cursor is flashing inside of here, so you can just start typing now. Another way to get text into InDesign is to place a text file, and you can place a text file or a Word file or even an RTF file with fully formatted text inside any text frame. In this case, let's put the…

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