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095 Managing changing pages with primary text frames

095 Managing changing pages with primary text frames - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

095 Managing changing pages with primary text frames

I have a template here for a book that I'm laying out. And I'm going to go ahead and just import some texts for a couple chapters. So I'll go to the File Menu, choose Place and then grab my chapters in this RTF file. I'll click Open and InDesign gives me this little alert saying something's wrong with the font. I honestly don't know why it says that. It really shouldn't, so I'm just going to ignore it and say OK. So InDesign has loaded up my place cursor, and I can just click. And you'll see that InDesign creates a frame and flows the text into it. At the bottom, I see my overstep mark, meaning that there's too much text to fit in this one frame. So instead, I'm going to undo that Cmd+z, or Ctrl+z on Windows. And I'm going to hold down the Shift key. And the Shift key forces InDesign to load the entire story in, even if it means adding additional pages and making text frames for it. And you can see, all those additional pages showed up here in the Pages panel. If I jump to page three…

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