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Autoflow tricks and Primary Text Frame

Autoflow tricks and Primary Text Frame - InDesign Tutorial

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Autoflow tricks and Primary Text Frame

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- In this movie, I'll show you a few tricks for making quick work of automatically flowing text across multiple pages. As you can see, I still have that last text frame selected, and it ends with that red plus sign. Elsewhere, by the way, you see little blue arrowheads that are showing you that the text is continuing in another frame. And you can see that I still have the red error down here at the bottom of the screen. But as soon as I click on that little red plus sign, then my arrows go away, and that's because all of the overflow text is now loaded in my cursor. Now you may find it a little bit problematic that you have to click to flow a column, and then you have to click again to reload your cursor. If you'd like to save a step, here's what you do. I'm gonna press alt+pgdn or opt+pgdn on a Mac to advance to the next spread, and this time I'm gonna press and hold the alt key, or the opt key on a Mac. And that's a great key to try out in a lot of different situations, by the way…

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