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076 Quickly threading frames together and unthreading frames

076 Quickly threading frames together and unthreading frames - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

076 Quickly threading frames together and unthreading frames

An essential skill of every InDesign professional is the ability to quickly thread a series of text frames and to unthread them, often incorrectly referred to as linking text frames. And in InDesign linking usually refers to this kind of link or a hyperlink. So we call them threaded. Threading text frames, these three frames are unthreaded, you can tell because in the in port is empty and the out port is empty. That is where you see little triangles that appear if they are threaded. Compare that with this story where the first frame, the in port is empty and the out port has a triangle pointing to the second frame, where both the in port and the out port have a triangle, meaning it's in the middle of a threaded story. This is the last one in a threaded story. Now the point is sometimes you are working with a document with a threaded story and you need to unthread these. You need them to be stand-alone frames, and sometimes you're working with a document that has a bunch of unthreaded…

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