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Fast ways to find and fix overset text

Fast ways to find and fix overset text - InDesign Tutorial

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Fast ways to find and fix overset text

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- [Anne-Marie] Hello, hello, hello. It's Anne-Marie from InDesign Tips For Design Geeks. Today, I'm going to show you some cool tricks for finding and fixing overset text. Overset text is when the text won't fit into a frame, and sometimes you don't even realize it until you go to export to PDF, or you go to print and you get this overly helpful dialogue box. There's overset texts on these pages. What are you supposed to do about it? It doesn't even have a link to jump there. All right, so let's just cancel out of here. You don't want to print or export to PDF without seeing all the text, right? You probably already know that you can scroll through your document and look closely at the bottom right of text frames to see if there's an overset marker there. But also, did you ever notice that there's this red dot at the bottom of your window? There's at 99% chance it's there. You may have turned it off by accident, but if you…

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