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Using placeholder text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography
Using placeholder text
- [Instructor] Often when you are working in InDesign, the actual text has yet to be finalized and you are waiting to receive that from somebody else. But in the meantime, you want to get on and start designing the document, so you need to work with placeholder text. And we can fill a text frame with placeholder text, it's the last but one item under the type menu. Currently it's dimmed, and that's because I don't have my cursor inside a text frame. So I'll tap T to go to my type tool and I'll make a text frame, I'll make a text frame that is the width of those two columns. Come to the type menu, fill with placeholder text, and you can see that it fills the whole frame, I'll now divide that frame into two columns. InDesign's placeholder text is not the same as Lorem Ipsum, the classic version of placeholder text. If you want to use that, there is a website, well, there are many websites, but this is one, lipsum.com. And you can specify how many words, paragraphs, et cetera you want of…
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