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Working with type
Adobe InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom
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5 Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac OS) to select all
the type within the current frame. From the Paragraph Styles panel, choose Body. All the
selected paragraphs are now formatted using the Body style.
6 Choose Edit > Deselect All to deselect the type.
Flowing type
Stories often continue from one page or column to another. You will set up links between text
frames to allow a story to ow into multiple columns.
1 In the lower-left corner of the document area, click the page number drop-down menu
and select page 3 to navigate to this page. You can also use this menu to navigate to
di erent pages in your document.
Use the page drop-down menu
to navigate between pages.
2 Using the Type tool ( ), click inside the rst frame on the left side of the page
underneath the headline
Race Calendar.
3 Choose File > Place. In the Place dialog box, navigate to the id01lessons folder.
Select the le Calendar.txt and press Open to place the text from the le into your
InDesign layout.
4 Activate the Selection tool ( ) from the Tools panel, then, if necessary, click to select the
text frame where you imported the text. You can tell the frame is selected by the small,
square handles that appear on each corner of the frame, and also in the middle of each
side of the frame.
In the upper-left corner of the text frame, slightly below the corner handle, is a
small square. This is the In Port, and it is used to describe whether this frame is
the continuation of a text ow from another frame. Simply put, does the text start
somewhere else, or does it start in this frame? Because the In Port is empty, you can tell
that the text starts in this frame. If the In Port contains an arrow, you would know that
the text continues from another location.
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