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Adding text frames - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Adding text frames
- [Instructor] There are probably a few people who use InDesign for pictures only, but most of us need to put text on our pages. Well, you cannot have text without a text frame, and the simplest way to make a text frame is to use the Type tool. I'm going to scroll over to the left a little bit, by holding down Option + spacebar, or Alt + spacebar on Windows, and then dragging. Now, I want to add some text frames over here on the left, over on the pasteboard, but I don't like that gray. So I'm going to go to the View menu, and I'm going to turn off the Match Pasteboard to Theme Color feature. I just find this white pasteboard background easier to work with. Now, I choose the Type tool from the tool panel, and then simply click and drag. Notice that as I'm dragging, I get the measurements of that frame in a little field to the right of my cursor. That helps me create just the size I want. When I let go of the mouse…
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