Datasheet

To change how an image is cropped, drag
its circular Content Grabber. A ghosted
image of the whole graphic appears when
you drag (not shown here) to help you
position the image properly.
If the styles in the Word or  le
have names that do not match the
styles in your InDesign document,
you can use Customize Style Import
to map them properly.
When you click OK, InDesign places
the text into the currently selected
text frame. If no frame was selected,
InDesign loads the Place icon ( ):
 To ow text manually, move the
loaded Place icon inside an exist-
ing frame, and then click. e text
stops owing at the bottom of
the frame or the last of a series of
threaded frames. You can also click
an empty area to create a new text
frame that’s the size of the current
page column. If you click and drag
the loaded Place icon, you create a
new frame the size of the rectangle.
Here’s a quick overview of how to
resize and crop images:
 To scale a frame and its contents,
hold down Command (Mac OS)
or Ctrl (Windows) while dragging
a handle with the Selection tool.
Add the Shi key to maintain the
proportions as you resize.
 To scale to a specic width or
height, replace the X or Y per-
centage value in the Control
panel with a specic value.
 To crop an image inside a frame,
click the frame with the Selection
tool and drag one of its side or
corner handles.
 To move an image inside its
frame, use the Selection tool to
drag the Content Grabber, or dou-
ble-click the graphic to select it,
and then drag the image.
 To t a frame to its content, dou-
ble-click a frame handle or press
Command+Option+C (Mac OS)
or Ctrl+Alt+C (Windows). is
works for text frames, too.
 To scale an image to t inside a
frame, you can choose Fit
Content Proportionally or Fill
Frame Proportionally from the
Object > Fiing menu.
If the text frame is overset, you can
click the out port with the Selec-
tion tool, and continue manually
owing text.
 To ow text semiautomatically,
hold down Option (Mac OS) or
Alt (Windows), and click a frame
or empty area. Semiautoow works
like manual text ow, but the
pointer becomes a loaded Place
icon again aer each click.
 To ow text automatically and gen-
erate new pages to hold all of the
text, hold down the Shi key when
you click.
 To ow text automatically but
not generate new pages, hold
down Shi+Option (Mac OS) or
Shi+Alt (Windows).
Importing graphics
If you already have a frame selected
on your document page, you can
import a graphic into it by choos-
ing File > Place. In the Place dialog
box, select the graphic you want to
import, select Replace Selected Item
at the bottom of the Place dialog box,
and then click Open.
If you have no frame selected on your
page, or you deselect the Replace
Selected Item option, when you
click Open in the Place dialog box
InDesign loads the Place icon .
en you can:
 Click an empty area of the page or
pasteboard to create a new frame
the size of the graphic, or click
and drag the loaded graphics icon
to create a frame the size of the
Working with graphics and frames
 To specify default ing options
for a frame, use the controls in
the Frame Fiing Options dialog
box (Object > Fiing > Frame
Fiing Options).
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