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Adding or editing text

Adding or editing text - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding or editing text

- [Instructor] Okay, we have our document open but we have a problem. It's mostly empty. Empty document not good. Let's look at how we can get some text in here. Now the main tool in InDesign for manipulating text is the Type tool. That's the one with a little 'T' on it over here in the Tool panel. The Type tool let's us do two things in InDesign. It let's you create text frames, that is frames that are going to contain text, and then also let's you edit the text inside those frames. So, first let's take that Type tool and draw out a rectangle over here in the middle of the page. When you let go of the mouse button, you will see that the Type tool created a text frame, and the text cursor is flashing inside of here. So, you can start typing now. Another way to get text into InDesign is to place a text file, and you can place a text file or a Word file, or even an RTF file with fully formatted text inside any text frame.…

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