From the course: InDesign Secrets
307 Two ways to ignore text wrap - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
307 Two ways to ignore text wrap
- [Instructor] Here's a straightforward tip that I think a lot of people could use in any kind of production in InDesign, and that is how to ignore text wrap when you are trying to join text with an image. There's a couple different ways to do so. Here we have a layout, and I want this banner, which is grouped itself, it's two halves that are grouped together, to have a text wrap to cause this text to wrap around it, right. So with the banner selected, I'll turn on text wrap around bounding box, and I'll give it an offset of one pica all the way around. That looks good. But I want this text, and this is actual text, by the way, just has a stroke on it, so it looks outlined, I want this text to be on top of the banner. So I'll drag it up, and, ah, it disappears. In fact, it disappears even down here. And why is that? Because it is obeying the rules. It is, the text is supposed to be pushed away from this. And you'll encounter this a lot if you're doing captions for pictures, for example. And now the main way to fix this is to select that text frame, go to the Object menu, go to Text Frame Options, and turn on Ignore Text Wrap. That's all, you turn on Ignore Text Wrap for the frame containing the text. So now this is ignoring anything that's wrapping, and there you go, that's one way to do it. I'm going to undo. And another way to do it is first, turn off the text wrap on the image, so I'll switch back to no text wrap, then put your text where you want it, next to the image, on top of the image, and group the text with the image. So I'm Shift clicking both of these, going to the Object menu, choosing Group, and now apply text wrap to the group. So I'll choose around bounding box, give it a one pica offset, there you go. Because sometimes you don't want to turn on Ignore Text Wrap, and other times you can't group the text with the image, so here are two ways around that to make sure that the caption or the text that you want to appear near or on top of the image does appear, even though the image is causing the text to wrap.
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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