From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
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Spanning, splitting, and balancing columns - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
Spanning, splitting, and balancing columns
- [Voiceover] When working with threaded text, there are two approaches you can take. You can either have a single text frame divided into columns, or you can have single frames that are threaded together. And on the left we have an example of the first, and on the right an example of the second scenario. If I select this text frame, we see it is a single text frame, but it has been divided up here on the control panel into three columns. I could also divide it coming to the Object menu and going to my Text Frame Options, number of columns, three, and for the most part I would suggest that this is the preferable way to go. But in situations as we have here where we have four columns that are threaded together, where each of the columns has a different starting point and different ending point, then these need to be separate frames. Separate frames that have been threaded. This second approach of working with separate frames that are threaded is also useful when you're working with an…
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