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171 Fun with placeholder text

171 Fun with placeholder text - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

171 Fun with placeholder text

- There are lots of different times when you need to fill an empty text frame with placeholder text. For example, if you want to experiment with formatting, what should the body copy look like if you haven't gotten the body copy yet from the writer, or maybe somebody needs to know a word count, so you need to fill up a text frame and apply the style and then get a word count. InDesign, of course, does have a way to fill up empty text frames with placeholder text. Up here, under the Type menu, choose Fill With Placeholder Text, and what comes in is kinda boring, lorum ipsum, you know, fake, Latin looking kind of type, which is fine if you wanted to get an idea of how many words were in here, you would just click inside text, and then go to the Window menu, choose Info, and as long as you have clicked inside with your Type tool, you'll see a word count. So I could tell the writer, give me 371 words. To be more accurate, I would want to format it so I might select it all and apply my…

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