From the course: InDesign Secrets

307 Two ways to ignore text wrap - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

307 Two ways to ignore text wrap

- [Instructor] Here's a straightforward tip that I think a lot of people could use in any kind of production in InDesign, and that is how to ignore text wrap when you are trying to join text with an image. There's a couple different ways to do so. Here we have a layout, and I want this banner, which is grouped itself, it's two halves that are grouped together, to have a text wrap to cause this text to wrap around it, right. So with the banner selected, I'll turn on text wrap around bounding box, and I'll give it an offset of one pica all the way around. That looks good. But I want this text, and this is actual text, by the way, just has a stroke on it, so it looks outlined, I want this text to be on top of the banner. So I'll drag it up, and, ah, it disappears. In fact, it disappears even down here. And why is that? Because it is obeying the rules. It is, the text is supposed to be pushed away from this. And you'll encounter this a lot if you're doing captions for pictures, for example. And now the main way to fix this is to select that text frame, go to the Object menu, go to Text Frame Options, and turn on Ignore Text Wrap. That's all, you turn on Ignore Text Wrap for the frame containing the text. So now this is ignoring anything that's wrapping, and there you go, that's one way to do it. I'm going to undo. And another way to do it is first, turn off the text wrap on the image, so I'll switch back to no text wrap, then put your text where you want it, next to the image, on top of the image, and group the text with the image. So I'm Shift clicking both of these, going to the Object menu, choosing Group, and now apply text wrap to the group. So I'll choose around bounding box, give it a one pica offset, there you go. Because sometimes you don't want to turn on Ignore Text Wrap, and other times you can't group the text with the image, so here are two ways around that to make sure that the caption or the text that you want to appear near or on top of the image does appear, even though the image is causing the text to wrap.

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