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To use a path or graphics frame as a text placeholder frame, select a path or an empty
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graphics frame, and then choose Object > Content > Text.
To use a text or graphics frame as a path only, select an empty frame, and then choose
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Object > Content > Unassigned.
Note: When a frame contains text or graphics, you cannot redefine it using the Object >
Content menu. However, the frame automatically redefines itself if you select it and
replace its contents.
Adjusting layout objects automatically
If you use the Document Setup or Margins and Columns commands to make changes to
an existing layout, such as altering column widths or page orientation, you could spend
considerable time and effort in rearranging objects to fit the new layout. The Layout
Adjustment feature can do much of that work automatically. For example, you can quickly
reformat a wide four-column document designed for an A4-size page to a tall two-column
format on a U.S. legal-size page. With Layout Adjustment, text and graphics frames are
moved and resized as necessary based on the new relative positions of column guides,
page margins, and page edges.
Note: Dragging column guides does not trigger layout adjustment.
About automatic layout adjustment
When you change a layout setting that affects page size, margins, or columns, and the
Layout Adjustment feature is enabled, that feature uses a set of logical rules to move and
resize page guides and objects.
Page designed vertically, for print (left); page orientation changed for on-screen viewing, with layout
automatically refitted by the Layout Adjustment feature (right)
You can modify the rules in the Layout Adjustment dialog box. The Layout Adjustment
feature attempts to approximate the proportions of the old layout in the new layout by
doing the following:
Repositioning margin guides, but maintaining margin widths, if the page size changes
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moving column and ruler guides to maintain proportional distances from page edges,
margins, or column guides.
Adding or removing column guides at the right side of the page, if the new layout
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specifies a different number of columns.
Moving objects already aligned to any margin, column, or ruler guide, or to any two
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guides perpendicular to each other, so that the objects stay with those guides if the
guides move during layout adjustment.
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