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124 Make two automatically threaded text flows

124 Make two automatically threaded text flows - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

124 Make two automatically threaded text flows

You probably know that you can import a long story, like a Word document, so that it's automatically threaded from one page to the next. If you don't know how to do that, check out my InDesign Essential Training Course here in the online training library. But I am sometimes asked, can I have two automatically threaded stories in a document, for example what if I have one story in English and another in Spanish? Or one that's the main text and the other's a multi-page side bar? Fortunately, InDesign does let you do this, but it's just not immediately obvious how. So, let me show you. I have a document open here. It's an untitled document, but I have created several paragraph styles. I did that just so that the imported text will map to these styles and look a little bit different. If I go up to the Pages panel, you'll see I only have one page and one master page. I'm going to double click on that master page and I'm going to add some text frames. I'll choose my type tool and then…

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