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Hello, I'm Riotta Scott, joining you once again for
Part 4 of Creating a Newsletter from Scratch with InDesign CS6.
In this video, we'll work with text frames.
The default style for a text frame is transparent with no border,
which you can see here in the table of contents that I've added.
You can always apply a fill and stroke to the text frame afterward,
or you can use one of the shape tools,
and simply add text to it.
So I'm going to grab the Rectangle Tool here,
and simply click and drag in this empty area,
to create a box.
Now, I could go ahead and grab my Text Tool here and click in and just start typing,
but what I'm going to do is add an article that we've done in Word already.
So we'll go up to File and Place...
and I'll find this little article about a zebra...
click Open...
and since we already had this text frame, or this rectangle selected,
then when I placed the document, it automatically placed it in the selection.
Otherwise it would have just been on my cursor, and we could have clicked anywhere to add
it.
Now this is a little bit hard to read, so let's make a few changes.
First of all, I'll select all of the text here,
and I'll open my Swatches panel...
make sure I'm on the Fill,
and I'll go up here and choose Paper, so it's white.
And I have Calibri... that's fine,
and I'll change that to 14 points...
and let's make it bold.
And I want to point out that you can see right away that
we have some overset text here...
so let's change the size of our box, so we can fit everything.
And I just got my Selection Tool back, and I'll just click and drag from the handles.
My computer is being a little bit unresponsive.
Alright. That's good for now.
And then we're going to change the inset spacing because
I really don't like it flush against the edge,
so I'm going to right-click and choose Text Frame Options...
and then our inset spacing -- since this icon here is selected,
that means that it will change everything at once if I change something...
So I'm going to change that to 1 pica,
oops -- my computer is still being a little unresponsive for some reason --
When I hit Tab, the rest of them become 1 pica also...
If I move this over and click Preview,
I can see how much it has spaced in.
And again I have some overset text,
but I'm also going to add an image a little later,
in a later video, and I'll have to change that once again,
so I'm just going to leave it alone for now.
The last thing we'll do with this shape before we move on to our lesson about columns,
is add some rounded corners to this box.
So I'll select the box...
come up here to our corner options...
and choose Rounded...
and I'll click off this box so you can see it...
and there we have it.
Alright, the last thing we're going to do in our text frame video,
is change this from one column that's spanning across here,
to three columns.
So I'm going to right-click -- let's choose it first,
so I've got my Selection Tool, and I've selected it --
and then I'm going to right-click and choose Text Frame Options...
and number of columns... we'll put 3...
and you can see it happening already over here...
We won't worry about the inset spacing because
we already have some spacing with the gutters,
and since there's no background on this text box,
we don't have to worry about it being flush against anything.
So we'll just say OK...
and then I'm going to select everything here --
and what I did was -- we were on the Selection Tool, I clicked 5 times -- it selected everything
and then I'll go here and choose Right-Justify.
And let's just click off of this so you can see what's going on.
And this isn't exactly what I want yet,
but we're also going to place an image here in the center,
which we'll do in the next video,
so we will fix this a little bit when we get to that point.
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