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Typing and selecting text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography
Typing and selecting text
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'd like to look at the anatomy of a text frame. When I select the text frame, we get various handles appear at its corner points and center points. So we have the resize handles and we can just pull on these to resize the text frame. At top left, we have the in port. It's currently empty, which indicates that this is the beginning of the story. A story, in InDesign terms, is any continuous flow of text. It could theoretically be a single character or it could be thousands of pages that are threaded together. In terms of threading the stories together, the out port down at bottom right indicates, in this particular case, that this story is not threaded to any other, but rather that it has overset text. The red plus means there's more text than will fit into the text frame. Now what we do with that is up to us. We could make the text frame bigger or we could continue the text flow elsewhere, or we could delete some text. We'll see much more of that in…
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