Operation Manual

Adding and manipulating text | 381
You can insert placeholder text in multiple frames by clicking Pick tool , selecting the text frames while holding down Shift, and
then clicking Text Paragraph text frame Insert placeholder text.
You can also select the empty text frame, right-click, and choose Insert placeholder text.
When you insert placeholder text in the first frame in linked frames, the placeholder text fills all frames.
You can undo inserting placeholder text by clicking Edit Undo insert placeholder text.
To adjust text to fill the text frame
1 Select a text frame.
2
Click Text Paragraph text frame Fit text to frame.
If you choose to fit text to a frame that is linked to other frames, the application adjusts the size of text in all linked text frames. For
more information about linking text frames, see “Combining and linking paragraph text frames” on page 382.
Adding columns to text frames
You can lay out text in columns. You can create columns of equal or varying widths and gutters. You can also apply right-to-left text flow to
the columns for bidirectional (bidi) text, such as Arabic and Hebrew (Note that this option is available only for certain languages).
The text in the frame (left) was laid out in two columns (right).
To add columns to a text frame
1 Select a paragraph text frame.
2
Click Window Property manager.
3
In the Property manager docker, click the Frame button to display the frame-related options.
4 Type a value in the Number of columns box.
To resize text frame columns
1
Click the Text tool and select a text frame with columns.
2 Perform a task from the following table.
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To Do the following
Manually adjust column and gutter width
Click the Text tool . Drag a column side selection handle.