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Setting text frame attributes - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Setting text frame attributes
- [Instructor] If you've ever framed a photograph, you know that it's all about managing where the image sits inside the frame, how far from the edge, and so on. Well, text is the same way, and you can control where InDesign positions text inside a frame using the Text Frame Options dialogue box. Let me show you. In this frame over here on the left, you can see that the text is pressed right up against the edge of the frame, which is kind of ugly, so let's insert some space. To do that, I select it and then go up to the Object menu and then choose Text Frame Options, or you can press Command + B on a Mac or Control + B on Windows. The Inset Spacing section in the middle of this dialogue box lets us control how much space there should be. It's sort of like adding padding or margins between the edge of the frame and the text. Now, if you want to have different amounts of spacing on each of the four sides of the frame, then click the button in the left. That unlinks those fields. I'm…
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