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Chapter 4. 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 your publications contain text, so knowing how to use and modify text are very important in InDesign. Text is made up of characters, and the characters are styled in a particular font. (If you're wondering about fonts, check out Book I, Chapter 6, where we explain more about fonts and font faces.)

This chapter explains how InDesign uses text in publications and gets you started editing and manipulating text in text frames — containers on the page that hold text content. The most important things you can take away from this chapter are how to add text to your publication and then change the text so that it looks how you want it to look when laid out on the page. In Chapter 5 of this minibook, find out how to create effective layouts that contain both text and graphics so that your audience will be encouraged to read everything!

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 some of the terminology that appears in the following pages is important: Text and font refer to similar things, although they're quite different from each other in the specifics:

• Text: The letters, ...