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Using anchored objects

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Using anchored objects

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- [Instructor] This photo here has been placed on my page and given a text wrap so that the text flows right past it, and this layout looks pretty good right now. Let's zoom in by pressing Command or Control + + a couple of times. Now, what if we need to edit the text? The graphic and the text need to stay together, but if I come over here and double-click on this text to switch to the Type tool and then I'll just delete some text. What happens? The image stayed right where it was. So we've got a problem there. How can we tell the picture to move along with the text? To do that, we need to make it an inline or anchored object. Let's first undo that to get our text back. Now we're going to turn this object, this graphic, into an inline object. So first, I'm going to select it with a Selection tool and cut it to the clipboard with a Command or Control + X. Next, I want to make a line for it to sit on all by itself. So I'll double-click at the end of this paragraph and then hit Return or…

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