6 Flowing Text

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Import and flow text into existing text frames.

  • Resize text frames automatically.

  • Link text frames to flow text across columns and pages.

  • Create linked frames automatically.

  • Add pages and linked frames automatically while flowing text.

  • Clean up text by deleting extra paragraph returns.

  • Apply paragraph styles to text.

  • Control column breaks.

  • Align text to the baseline grid.

  • Make a jump line to indicate where an article continues.

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This lesson will take about 60 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page ...

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