![]() After a brief pause, your Info panel will tell you how much overset text you have. One way you can manage it is by double clicking into the text frame and then coming to the Window menu and to the Info panel. What you do with the overset text is entirely up to you. If I move now to the last page in my document, in this case page eight, we see the red plus indicating overset text. Hold down the Shift key as well as the Option or Alt key, and this time what happens is it will fill all of your available pages and then the text flow will stop. Command or Control + D to place the text file. Let's say that you have a fixed number of pages but you want to use Auto Flow. A variant of Auto Flow is Auto Flow without adding pages. I'll be talking about the pros and cons of these two different approaches in a later movie. The difference between this and a Primary Text Frame is that this has created two frames that are threaded together rather than, and if I just switch back now to Primary Text Frame, a single frame that is divided into two columns. You get to Auto Flow by holding down the Shift key. Auto Flow has in many ways been superseded by Primary Text Frame, which is a more recent feature, but like Primary Text Frame, Auto Flow will create pages as necessary to accommodate your text. Once again, Command or Control + D to place the text file. And this might be useful if you need to be a bit more directed about exactly where the text is going. And the key difference is that you hold down the Option or Alt key and that will automatically reload your cursor for you. Once again, Command or Control + D to place my text file. This is like manual but slightly sped up. Obviously with a long text flow, Manual Text Flow is not really suited, but it does give you a bit more control, for example if I wanted to skip this column, I could just move to the second column and place my text there. If I want to add another page, the keyboard shortcut is Command + Shift + P or Control + Shift + P, but before I do that, I will reload my cursor at the page and then I can continue my text flow. If I click on the red plus, I reload my cursor and I can now continue the text flow. At the end of the column or the page if it is a single-column page, the text flow stops and we see a red plus indicating overset text. If I want my columns to start at the top margin, then I need to mouse over the top margin, you'll see that the arrow changes from black to white and I know that I'm snapping to the top margin. Now with manual text flow, where you click in the column, that becomes the starting point of your text frame and the width of your text frame is determined by the width of the column. I'll undo that by pressing Command or Control + Z. Before I look specifically at Manual Text Flow, I should point out that there is also the option to click and drag to determine whatever width and height of text frame you want. I will place the same text file, this time using the keyboard shortcut, Command or Control + D. Primary Text Frames are useful for longer text flows because they are created on the master page or master page spread, you can come to the master pages, select the frames, make any adjustment to them that you see fit and that adjustment will be reflected on all of the document pages. For the pages to be added, Smart Text Reflow needs to be on. ![]() Primary Text Frame works in conjunction with a type preference called Smart Text Reflow. Click inside the frame and where I was before. ![]() When my cursor is over the frame, the dotted line is curved. When my cursor is outside of the frame, the dotted line is square. Had I not selected the frame, then I would have a loaded type cursor. I'm just gonna press Command or Control + Z to undo that. If I select the frame and then come to the File menu and choose Place, choose my text file, click Open, the text goes into that frame and after a brief pause, will create as many pages as are necessary to accommodate the text. The Primary Text Frame is actually on the master page spread. We can identify a Primary Text Frame by this icon. In the first of these when it was created, this check box was checked. They are all two-column letter size documents. ![]() In this movie, I want to look at InDesign's text flow methods beginning with using a Primary Text Frame.
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