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Inserting placeholder text
While you can lay out and thread text frames before adding text to them, adding place-
holder text can give you a more complete sense of your document's design. InDesign can
add placeholder text that you can easily replace with real text later.
If you add placeholder text to a frame that's threaded to other frames, the placeholder text
is added at the start of the first text frame (if all frames are empty) or at the end of the
existing text (if some text is already in the threaded frames).
Note: Placeholder text doesn't represent any particular language. Before you adjust
settings that depend on the rules of a specific language, replace the placeholder text with
the actual text in your document's final language.
To add placeholder text to a text frame:
1 Do one of the following:
Using the selection tool, select one or more text frames.
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Using the type tool, click in a text frame.
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2 Choose Type > Fill with Placeholder Text.
You can also choose Fill with Placeholder Text in the context menu that appears when
you right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a selected empty text frame or a
text frame with an active insertion point.
About text frames on master pages
When you start a new document, you can select the Master Text Frame option so that an
empty text frame is placed on the document's default master page. This frame has the
column and margin attributes specified in the New Document dialog box.
Follow these guidelines for using text frames on master pages:
Set master text frames when you want each page in your document to contain a page-
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sized text frame into which you can flow or type your text. If your document requires
more variation, such as pages with different numbers of frames or frames of different
lengths, leave the Master Text Frame option deselected.
Whether or not you select the Master Text Frame option, you can add text frames to a
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master page to act as placeholders. You can thread these empty placeholder frames
together to establish a flow.
Flow text into master text frames using the same procedures you would use with
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frames created on document pages.
If you need to type text in a master text frame on a document page, hold down
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Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac OS) as you click the text frame on the
document page. Then click in the frame using the type tool and begin typing.
If you change the page margins, text frames adjust to the new margins only if the
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Enable Layout Adjustment option is selected; see
cally" on page 65.
Selecting the Master Text Frame option does not affect whether new pages are added
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when you autoflow text.
When you place text into a frame on a document page that is based on one of several
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threaded frames on a master page, the text only flows into the frame you click. That's
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