From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign

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Threading text - InDesign Tutorial

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Threading text

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- [Instructor] Let's go back to our selection tool in the toolbox just here and click on the frame if it's not selected already. And let's just resize this text frame. Okay, so that it goes up to the top like so. Now on the right-hand side, we've got the overflow marker. It's called the outpour overflow marker here and it tells us there's more text in there than the box can contain. So we click on that marker and it loads that text into our cursor. For the moment, I am just going to click and drag down two columns here just to load that text in there. There is now a relationship between those two frames. This is what's known as threading. And it means if this, for example, got too small, that text would overflow into this frame. And it's very useful for publications. Now we've done that, what we're going to do next is we're going to style this text slightly differently because a big, long line of text like that,…

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