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Automagically fit text to a static text frame size

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Automagically fit text to a static text frame size

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- [Anne-Marie] Hi, it's Anne-Marie for "InDesign Tips for Design Geeks." I want to take a look at copy fitting text that is trying to get the text to fit into a text frame. Now you're probably already aware that there is a feature called autofit where if I click inside of a text frame and actually let's switch this to edit mode and I start typing that the text frame itself gets larger to accommodate the text, which is really useful for things like sidebars for example. But what if I did not want this text frame to increase in size and instead, I want the inverse to occur. I want the text to decrease in size as needed. I'm going to show you how to do this in a very clever way that I saw demonstrated at the most recent CreativePro Week. But first, let me turn off the autofit for this frame. So I'm going to text frame options with Command or Control + B, going to Auto-Size and turning it off so that now if I add text,…

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