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Filling with placeholder text

Filling with placeholder text - InDesign Tutorial

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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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