- Creating Text Frames
- Typing Text
- Selecting Text
- Moving and Deleting Text
- Using the Character Palette
- Setting the Typeface and Point Size
- Styling Text
- Setting Line and Character Spacing
- Applying Text Distortions
- Setting the Language
- Applying Paragraph Formatting
- Setting Alignment and Indents
- Inserting a Manual Indent
- Setting Paragraph Effects
- Working with Hidden Characters
- Using the Glyphs Palette
- Working with Text Flow
- Setting Text Frame General Controls
- Using the Control Palette for Text
- Using Special Text Characters
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Setting Text Frame General Controls
Once you create a text frame, you can still control the flow of text within the frame. This is similar to creating a mini-layout within the text frame.
To create text frame columns:
- Select the text frame.
- Choose Object > Text Frame Options. This opens the Text Frame Options dialog box
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- Click the General tab.
- Make whatever changes you want to the settings.
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You can create columns within a text frame.
To create text frame columns:
- Set the following options in the Columns areas
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- Number sets the number of columns.
- Width sets the column width.
- Gutter controls the space between the columns.
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InDesign also has a powerful feature that helps you maintain a fixed column width when working with a text frame. This is very helpful for magazine and newspaper layouts where all text is in the same column width.
To use Fixed Column Width:
- Click Fixed Column Width in the Text Frame Options dialog box.
- Drag to resize the frame width. The width automatically jumps to whatever size can accommodate an additional column
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You can also add space between the text and the frame. This is called the inset spacing.
To control the frame inset:
- Select the text frame and open the Text Frame Options dialog box.
- Enter the values in the Inset Spacing controls to control the amount of space between the top, bottom, left, and right edges
of the frame
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- Click OK to apply the changes to the column
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The vertical justification of a text frame controls where the text is positioned from the top to the bottom of the frame.
To set the vertical justification:
- Select the text frame and open the Text Frame Options dialog box (see page 76).
- Choose one of the four options in the Vertical Justification Align pop-up list
:
- Top positions the text so that the first line sits at the top of the frame
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- Center positions the text so it is centered between the top and bottom of the frame .
- Bottom positions the text so that the last line sits at the bottom of the frame .
- Justify positions the text so that it fills the entire frame from top to bottom .
- Top positions the text so that the first line sits at the top of the frame
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When you set the vertical alignment to Justify, you can set how the space between paragraphs is applied.
To set the paragraph spacing limit:
- Set the Vertical Justification Alignment to Justify.
- Set an amount in the Paragraph Spacing Limit field
. The higher the number, the more space between paragraphs and the less likely the leading between the lines will be affected
by justifying the text vertically.
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Set an amount equal to the height of the text frame to add space only between the paragraphs, not between the lines
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