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Understanding text wrap

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Understanding text wrap

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- [Instructor] How do you get text to run around something else on your page? For example, I want this text to run around the flower. How do you do that? Well, you need the Text Wrap panel, and you can find that in the Window menu, just choose Text Wrap. Next, you need to select the object that you want to cause the wrap. In this case, it's that flower image, and then you need to choose one of the text wrap buttons at the top of the panel. Oh, I should point out that InDesign can do text wrap, whether the image is behind the text frame or on top of it, doesn't matter. Now, this first button in the Text Wrap panel means no wrap. That's what we have right now. There's no text run around going on, but this second button means wrap around the graphic frame, the whole frame. You can actually see the text wrap area out here, this thin blue line, it's blue because it's on the blue layer right now. Now if you want to fine tune that text wrap, you could adjust the fields down here in the…

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