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Working with Text
About text frames
All text in Adobe InDesign resides inside containers called text frames. Like graphics
frames, text frames can be moved, resized, and otherwise manipulated. The tool with
which you select a text frame determines the kind of changes you can make. Use the type
tool to enter or edit text in a frame. Use the selection tool
as positioning and sizing a frame; use the direct-selection tool to alter a frame's shape.
Text frames can also be connected to other text frames so that the text in one frame can
flow into another frame. Frames that are connected in this way are threaded. Text that
flows through one or more threaded frames is called a story. When you place (import)
a word-processing file, it comes into your document as a single story, regardless of the
number of frames it may occupy.
Text frames can have multiple columns. Text frames can also be placed on master pages
and still receive text on document pages; and they can be based on, yet independent of,
page columns. In other words, a two-column text frame can sit on a four-column page.
About threading text frames
The text in a frame can be independent of other frames, or it can flow between connected
frames. Connected frames can be on the same page or spread, or on another page in the
document. The process of connecting text among frames is called threading text.
Each text frame contains an in port and an out port, which enable connections to other
text frames. An empty in port or out port indicates the beginning or end of a story, respec-
tively. An arrow in a port indicates that the frame is linked to another frame. A red plus sign
(+) in an out port indicates that there is more text in the story to be placed but no more
text frames in which to place it. This remaining unseen text is called overset text.
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take in the sights and smells of your fine instruments available now to
hand-made instrument. See the discerning musician and collector.
way the soft light reflects off the To this day, each and every guitar,
handrubbed satin finish. Breath in man-dolin, banjo, and the dulcimer
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the perfume of the finest exotic produced at Anton is afforded the
tone-woods. Then, finally, take it in exact same care and attention to
your hands and begin to play. The detail as those that he created one-
experience will leave you swept by-one in the first few years. The
away, and your life and your music same attention to detail, the same
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will never be the same again. For demand for the best of wood and
the select few thousand individuals hardware available, and of course
A. In port at beginning of story B. Out port indicating thread to next frame C. Text thread
D. In port indicating thread from previous frame E. Out port indicating overset text
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