From the course: InDesign: Beyond the Essentials
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Filling with placeholder text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Beyond the Essentials
Filling with placeholder text
Sometimes you need some dummy text to fill a frame just to compete a mockup of your design. Traditionally, designers have typed some Latin text called Lorem Ipsum, to stand in position for text that they may not have yet. If you need some placeholder text, you'll be pleased to hear that InDesign can type it all for you. For example, here in this catalog, I have an empty text frame down here that I need to fill. I don't have the text from the copy editor yet, so I'm going to use some placeholder text. Let's zoom in on that. I'll just hold on Command+Spacebar on Mac or Ctrl+Spacebar on Windows, and drag out a rectangle, and it zooms in. Now I'm going to double-click inside this text frame to switch to the Type tool, and I need to make sure that all the text is formatted properly. So even though this frame is empty, I can check my Control panel to make sure the font, size, and so on, is set up, or even better, I'm going to use styles. First I'll check my Character Styles panel to make…
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Filling with placeholder text5m 35s
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Tracking text changes9m 12s
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Choosing other languages5m 45s
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Adjusting text hyphenation and justification9m 5s
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Adding hanging punctuation with Optical Margin Alignment5m 40s
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Controlling orphans and widows with Keep Options5m 41s
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Aligning to a baseline grid9m 1s
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Setting vertical justification and first baseline position5m 38s
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