From the course: Design a Newsletter
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Place and clean up text - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Design a Newsletter
Place and clean up text
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to place the text. First of all, I want to come to my Layers panel and make sure that I'm on the Text layer. I might just want to lock all other layers so that I can't inadvertently put content onto those layers. Let's start out on page one and I'll select the frame that contains my lead story. I'll press Command or Control d to go to Place and then from the Text folder, I'll choose my Lead Article. All of my articles are named for the page that they start on and the text will go into that text frame. I'll repeat that process for News in Brief. Now, I'll switch to page two. I can accelerate things here by doing a multiple place. Now, when I do this, my loaded text cursor will have a number next to it. In this case, I have eight text files on that loaded text cursor and I'll see a preview of the story. Now, if that preview is enough for me to identify what the story is then I can go ahead and just place it into the appropriate frame. It may be…
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