Moorpark College Graphic Design

InDesign provides a number of techniques to keeping text and/or objects together as you move elements around on their pages, or to new pages.

• Grouping – this is probably the most obvious way to keep two or more objects together. The dashed bounding box provides the visual clue to alert you to group objects. You’ll find the Group command under the object menu
• Inline Graphics –  cut or copy any graphics or text frame to the clipboard, create an insertion point within a text frame, and paste to create an inline graphic
• Paragraph Rules – this is a great technique for reversing or overprinting text on a colored box. Use Rule Above or rule below, make it a few points larger than your type size, and offset to position as desired
• Anchored Objects – Use this method to attach a text or graphics object within or outside of a text frame. Choose an insertion point; then go to Object>anchored objects>insert
• Documents – Create an InDesign book to link several documents together. One of the advantages of using the book feature to link documents is it’s ability to keep track of the pagination, renumbering the pages in all subsequent documents when a change is made in one document

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