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Using anchored objects - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Using anchored objects
- [Instructor] This photo has been placed on my page and given a text wrap so that the text flows right past it, and this layout looks pretty good right now. Let's go ahead and zoom in by pressing Command or Ctrl+ a couple of times. So, great, but now what if need to edit the text? The graphic and the text are supposed to stay together, but if you grab my Type tool, select some text, and say, delete it, well, now we have a problem. The text moved but the graphic didn't. So, how can we tell the picture to move along with the text? To do that, we need to make it an inline, or anchored, object. First, let's undo that to get our text back. To turn this frame into an inline object, I first need to select it with a Selection tool. Now I'm going to cut it to the clipboard with a Command or Ctrl+X. Next let's give it its own line, its own paragraph, to sit on. So, I'm going to grab the Type tool, click at the end of this first…
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Resizing and rotating objects5m 7s
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Duplicating objects and making grids3m 22s
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Moving objects above or below each other2m 19s
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Creating and controlling layers4m 56s
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Aligning and distributing4m 26s
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Understanding text wrap4m 5s
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Using anchored objects4m 54s
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