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Using AutoFit

Using AutoFit - Publisher Tutorial

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Using AutoFit

- [Instructor] When you're working with text, and specifically text boxes in Publisher, like we've been doing in the previous lessons, you can manually go in to change the font size and the line spacing until you get text filling a box nicely. Now, if you've got too little text to fill an entire text frame or text box, there's something called AutoFit which will increase things like the font size and the line spacing to make it fit nicely. The opposite is true as well. When you've got too much text and it goes into the overflow, we can use AutoFit to shrink things up so it fits nicely in the frame or text box as well. So let's open up an actual publication that's got both of these problems in there. We'll go to the Open button, navigate to the Lesson 4 folder of your exercise files, and choose Pub4e. You can double click that, or one click and Open does the same thing. Brings it up on our screen, and you can see this is a brochure. So looking first at this middle panel of our brochure…

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