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098 Placing an object where you want it with an object style

098 Placing an object where you want it with an object style - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

098 Placing an object where you want it with an object style

Here's a request that I've heard for years. I want an object style to set the size and position of a frame on my page. Now I'm not sure why Adobe hasn't offered this feature in Indesign yet. But I do know a kind of workaround that sometimes helps. This is a nice design here but let's put a bird on it. I'll choose the Place command, grab an image. And place it in my document. Excellent. Now I'd like to set up an object style that whenever I click on it, it will automatically move that object to the right place on the page. The trick to doing this is turning this object into an anchored object. So I'm going to grab a text frame, just draw out a little one here, go back and grab my Selection tool. Click on my object, my graphic here, and drag this little blue box, the one in the upper-right corner, I'm going to drag that into my empty text frame. Doesn't have to go into an empty text frame, it can go into any text frame, but it does need to be anchored into a text frame. You'll see that…

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