From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
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Setting text frame attributes - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Setting text frame attributes
- [Man] If you've ever framed a photograph, you know that it's all about managing where the image sits inside the frame. How far from the edge, and so on. Well, text is the same way. And you can control where InDesign positions text inside of a frame using the Text Frame Options dialogue box. Let me show you. In this frame over here on the left, you can see that the text is pressed right up against the edge on the left and right sides, which is kind of ugly. So, let's insert some space. To do that, I'm going to select it, then go up to the Object menu and choose Text Frame Options, or you can press command B or control B on Windows. Now, that inset spacing section in the middle of this dialogue box is where you can control how much space there should be. It's sort of like padding or margins between the edge of the frame and the text. If you want to have different amounts of spacing on each of the four sides of the…
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