From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 23,200 courses taught by industry experts.

Adding text frames

Adding text frames - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign 2023 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

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. That…

Contents