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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
Figure 1-3:
Reshape an
item with
the Direct
Selection
tool by
clicking and
dragging
an anchor
point.
Position tool
Meant to mimic PageMaker’s Crop tool to help former PageMaker users
adjust to InDesign, the Position tool, which you access from the pop-out
menu in the Direct Selection tool, combines some aspects of the Selection
tool with some aspects of the Direct Selection tool:
 As with the Selection tool, you can resize an object’s frame by dragging
its handles.
 As with the Direct Selection tool, you can click a graphic and reposition
it within the frame by dragging — and that has the effect of cropping the
graphic.
Using the Type tool
A very frequently used tool, the Type tool lets you enter, edit, and format
text. The Type tool also lets you create rectangular text frames.
Here’s how the Type tool works:
 To create a rectangular text frame, click and drag; hold the Shift key to
create a perfect square.
 To begin typing or editing text, click in a text frame or in any empty
frame and type away.
I explain stories and threaded text frames in Chapter 11.