Adobe InDesign CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Chapter ThreeWorking with Text

InDesign can do everything from serving as your primary word processor to importing text from other programs to automatically applying specialized formatting. In InDesign, text is placed inside text frames or it flows along type paths, both of which can be any size and any shape. Text frames and type paths can be linked (or threaded) to each other to flow text through a document.

When it comes to formatting text, you have a variety of options for applying character and paragraph attributes, including character styles or paragraph styles for automated formatting. InDesign also provides expert options for setting tabs, creating bulleted and numbered lists, and inserting variable text such as dates and cross ...