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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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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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