The Process Manual

PLACING TEXT IN INDESIGN You may find it easier to type the copy for your yearbook in a word processing program such as Microsoft Word. InDesign allows you to bring text from other programs into your document by placing it. To place text: 1. Select File > Place. 2. Navigate to the location of the file you want to place. 3. Click your text file to select it, then click Open. 4. Your cursor will become a loaded text icon. Click anywhere on the page to place the text or use the cursor to draw a frame in which your text will be placed. If column guides are drawn on the page, the text will automatically place within the first column unless you use the loaded text cursor to draw another shape. When you are placing text in a frame you have already drawn, your loaded text cursor has rounded corners. This indicates text that is being placed in a pre-existing frame, as opposed to the straight edges of a loaded text cursor that is being placed outside of a frame. TEXT FEATURES OF INDESIGN You can do any of the following either on the page or using InDesign’s Story Editor. To view your text in Story Editor, select Edit > Edit in Story Editor. Important text features of InDesign include: Spell Check To run spell check on your document: 1. Select Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling . 2. First decide how you want to search. If you are only checking the text in the currently selected frame, select Story. If you want to check all text blocks in the document, select Document. 3. Click the Start button. The first misspelled word will come up. You can choose to Ignore the detected misspelling, select one of the suggested words in the list or type your own spelling in the Change To field and click Change. Click Add to add the word to the dictionary. 4. Continue following these steps until InDesign returns the alert Spell Check Complete. Click OK , then click Done in the Check Spelling dialog.

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If your text file does not show up in the Place dialog, it may be a format that InDesign does not recognize. Try resaving your document in another format and then place it again.

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