Adobe Creative Cloud Design Tools All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 2: Working with Text and Text Frames

In This Chapter

• Understanding text and frames in a publication
• Adding and importing text
• Exploring text frame options
• Changing paragraph settings
• Editing with text editors and spell checking
• Working with tables
• Creating and editing text on a path

Most of the documents you create contain text, so it's important to know how to format, style, and control text in your layouts. Text is made up of characters, and the characters are styled in specific fonts. If you want to find out more about fonts and typefaces, check out Book I, Chapter 6.

This chapter explains how to create, edit, and style text by using InDesign. You get started by editing and manipulating text placed inside text frames — containers on the page that hold text content. The most important concepts you can take away from this chapter are how to add text to documents and then change the text so that it looks the way you want on the page. In Chapter 3 of this minibook, find out how to create effective layouts that contain both text and graphics so that your audience is encouraged to read everything you create.

Understanding Text, Font, and Frames

Text is usually integral to a publication because it contains specific information you want or need to convey to an audience. Understanding the terminology that appears in the following pages is important. Text and font are quite different from each other:

• Text: The letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs making up content in the ...