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• Tabs across the top display the type of attributes you can search for: Box, Box Color,
Frame, Line, Picture, Text, and Drop Shadow. The attributes in each pane correspond
to attributes in the Modify dialog box (Item menu) for each type of item.
• Each pane contains two sides: Find What and Change To. You check the attributes
you're searching for on the Find What side, and then check those attributes you want
to change on the Change To side of the palette. You can search on attributes in
multiple panes at the same time.
• The palette menu lets you put the selected item's attributes into the Find What side
of the palette. You can specify options in all the panes in the Item Find/Change
palette by choosing Acquire All Attributes or complete one pane at a time by choosing
Acquire Panel Attributes. You can use Clear All Attributes and Clear Panel Attributes
to clear panes.
• The Summary pane summarizes the settings in all of the panes.
• The check boxes at the bottom of the palette let you restrict your search to specific
types of items. To find and replace all types of items, leave all of these boxes are
unchecked.
• When you click Find Next, Item Find/Change searches the entire layout from start to
finish. To limit a search to the active spread, Option/Alt+click the Find Next button.
Working with boxes
There are three types of boxes: Text boxes, picture boxes, and no-content boxes (boxes
with a content of None). All three box types can contain color, shades, blends, and
frames. When you draw a text box, picture box, or no-content box, the available
controls correspond to the box type you create. But you can import text into picture
boxes that contain pictures, and you can import pictures into text boxes that contain
text. In addition to changing content type, you can change the shape and other
attributes of a box.
Creating text and picture boxes
There are three ways to create boxes:
• To create a no-content box (a box that can be changed into a picture box or a text box),
click and drag with the Rectangle Box tool , the Oval Box tool , or the Starburst
tool . You can declare text content by pressing T as you draw a no-content box. You
can declare picture content by pressing R as you draw a no-content box.
• To create a rectangular text or picture box, click and drag with the Text Content tool
or Picture Content tool .
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To create a Bézier box, use the Bézier pen tool . For more information, see "Creating
Bézier boxes."
To constrain rectangular boxes to squares and oval boxes to circles, press Shift while
you drag.
You can create boxes with the following tools:
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