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Working with type
19Lesson 1, InDesign CS4 Essential Skills
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7 The top line of the sentence is much longer than the bottom line. To balance the lines,
press the panel menu button (
) in the Control panel and choose Balance Ragged Lines
from the submenu. InDesign automatically balances the lines within the frame.
Apply the Balance Ragged Lines command to the headline.
You can also press the Return key while holding the Shift key to create a line break that does not
cause a new paragraph to be created. This is referred to as soft return.
Placing and formatting type
You can add text to an InDesign document by typing text into the InDesign page, or by
importing the text from an external  le, such as a Microsoft Word document or an Excel
spreadsheet. InDesign also lets you import ASCII, Rich Text, and InDesign Tagged Text  les.
1 If necessary, press the Pages button ( ) in the dock to open the Pages panel. Double-click
on page 2 in the Pages panel. If the pages panel is covering your work area, click the
double arrows in the upper-right corner of the panel to reduce it to a button, or
you may keep it open if your monitor is large enough to display the panel and the
page together.
2 Continuing to use the Type tool ( ), click inside the empty text frame that covers the
center and right columns, under the headline
Caring for Those Wheels. The cursor is
inserted in this frame, where you will import the text for the body of the story, which
was created using word processing software such as Microsoft Word.
3 Choose File > Place. The Place dialog box opens. In the Place dialog box, make certain
that Show Import Options is not selected and that Replace Selected items is selected.
These options are explained in more detail later in the book.
Locate and open the id01lessons folder and choose the  le Wheels.txt; then press Open.
The text from this  le is placed inside the frame where the cursor is located.
4 Place the cursor at the start of the story. Click the Paragraph Styles button to display the
Paragraph Styles panel. You will apply a paragraph style to format the text you imported.
Click the paragraph style Body, and the  rst paragraph is formatted using the Body style.
Paragraph styles apply formatting to the paragraph where the cursor is located. You will
now apply formatting to multiple paragraphs by selecting them and repeating the process.
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