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228 Setting text at an angle

228 Setting text at an angle - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

228 Setting text at an angle

- It's easy to rotate a text frame in InDesign, like this frame over here on the left, but it's not at all obvious how to set the text on an angle, like this text on the right. I'm not even sure how to describe that text. I like to call it Tower of Pisa text, where all the text is tilted over to the right. There are several ways you could achieve this in InDesign. One method is to use anchored text frames, but that's kind of a hassle, so here's another, relatively straight forward technique that lets you pull off this effect quickly. I'm going to apply it to this text frame down here. I have several paragraphs inside this text frame, and I've used rule below to separate them with that dotted line. Once I have the text more or less the way I want it, I'm going to select that frame with the selection tool. That's the black arrow tool at the top of the tools panel, but then, I'm going to change to the direct selection tool by pressing the "a" key on my keyboard, or you could just select…

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