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Typing and editing text

Typing and editing text - InDesign Tutorial

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Typing and editing text

- [Instructor] I know people who have put away Microsoft Word and they use InDesign as their word processor. Really? That does seem a bit extreme to me. I mean, if you need an alternate word processor that works well with InDesign, you should probably be using Adobe's InCopy software. But that said, InDesign does let you type and edit text pretty efficiently. Let me show you how. I want to select some text over here in the middle of this page. So I'm going to select the frame and then I'm going to zoom in to 200% by pressing Command-two on Mac or Control-two on Windows. And I'd like to place my text cursor inside this story. But instead of going all the way over to the Tool Panel to select the Type tool, I'm going to use a shortcut. I'm just going to double-click with the Selection tool. That tells InDesign to switch to the Type tool and place the cursor exactly where I double-clicked. It's so helpful to be able…

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