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Creating text frames - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introducing InDesign
Creating text frames
- In this movie, I'm going to show you how to create a text frame, which is a container that holds text inside your document. Now, if you're coming at this from a word processing background, then you might naturally expect to be able to type letters on the keyboard and have those words appear on your page. But that's not how things work inside of InDesign. Let's say I want to type the word "hello." Well, keep an eye on what's going on here inside the toolbox. If I press the H key, I end up selecting the Hand Tool, because H is that tool's keyboard shortcut. If I then press the E key, the second letter in the word "hello," I end up selecting the tool that has the shortcut E, and so forth. And that's because I don't have any text object active inside my document. Now, you may wonder, well, why do you have to have such an object active in the first place? Why can't you just type? And the reason is that InDesign relies on objects to perform its magic. Every single one of these items…
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Creating text frames5m 9s
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Selecting and formatting type7m 7s
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Searching and favoriting fonts (CC and up)5m 29s
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Type size and leading8m 31s
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Alignment, indents, and below spacing6m 55s
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Drop caps, columns, and vertical alignment4m 12s
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Coloring type and frames7m
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Installing fonts with Typekit (CC and up)3m 4s
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