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301 Embed a two-column text frame

301 Embed a two-column text frame - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

301 Embed a two-column text frame

- [Instructor] An InDesign student of mine, an accomplished layout designer, emailed me the other day and said what's the best way to embed a two-column text frame inside a one-column text frame? And they're wondering if they should use a table or an anchor graphic or what. I said let me see the document and it looks something like what you see in front of you. And what I realized is that they didn't even know about the existence of the feature called split text which is the answer to her question, so that's what I want to review here. Let's say that you're in the same position. You have a column full of text like say this column here and you want to insert a list, some kind of short list like this and if you just inserted the list by itself, like if I selected all this text, copied it, hit return and paste it, it's kind of short and you really are trying to save space so you want to kind of double it up like this and what my client was wondering was should she actually anchor this…

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