Alright, let's start out this lesson by pressing the W key to turn off Preview mode so we can see all of our guides and margins again, and what we are going to do is generate a Text frame inside the second column right here on the left hand side, and another one over on the right. Now, what we will do first is make sure that the Text layer is selected over here in the Layers Palette. This should be the green layer we created earlier on, and then we will go and grab the Type tool here from the Tools Palette and create ourself a new frame.
Now make sure that the cursor lines up to the 30 mm guide here and the edge of the second column here, and simply click-and-drag to generate that new type frame. Now bring it down to somewhere into the area occupied by the image in the background, and then go back up to the Main Selection Tool, and let's change its Height to a specific value. Now do make sure again that the anchor point is set somewhere on the top three buttons here, and we will change the height to a very precise 112 mm. When you have keyed that in, just hit Return or Enter to apply that. You will see it just goes down a little bit further into the shoulder of the character here. Now I said that we also wanted a second frame across the right hand side here in this middle column, and instead of dragging and changing the shape of a new frame, we can actually take the one we have currently got and copy it, and not using Copy and paste either, there is an even faster way to do it.
If you hold down the Alt key on the PC or the Option key on the Mac, you will see your cursor changes to a double-headed arrow, and that means anything we drag now, we will get a copy of it. So if you simply click-and-drag now with that Option key held down, drag across into that right hand frame and snap it into place, we now have one on the right, if you click back on the left, the original is still there. So very cool way to copy things. The great thing about this, again, is this the same shortcut when you are in Illustrator and in Photoshop. Now the ultimate aim here is to fill these two text frames with Type that we will import from a word document. What we are going to do first is bring in some style sheets. Now we have already looked briefly at how we create style sheets, but it is very easy to import them from other documents as well, which does save you huge amounts of time in workflow, if you don't have to recreate them from scratch.
So come on over to the Paragraph Styles Palette here on the right side, open that up if it needs to, and then come to the Fly-out menu on the side, go down and choose Load Paragraph Styles. Now you do have the ability to load All styles, which will be character, paragraph, object and swatches from any other document inside of InDesign, but we don't want to bring all those things in right now, just Paragraph Styles only. Now if you select that, InDesign brings up the Open File dialog, and lot of people think that you need to like export paragraph styles from an InDesign document to be able to reuse them. That's definitely not the case. Any InDesign file that contains current style sheets, you simply select it and import it.
So we are here still inside the Presets folder, make sure that one is available, and the first document we will select is Sculpture styles.indd. Simply select that, and go down and hit Open, and a secondary dialog box will come up. This is a new feature in InDesign CS2 asking us which style sheets do we want to bring in? But we already have a basic paragraph inside our style sheets anyway. Just slide this out of the way, you can see that over there on the right hand side, and InDesign also tells us that there is a conflict, there is an incoming style named the same as one that exists. Well, as we are not going to us that anyway, let's deselect that and only make sure we bring in this one, go Body Copy Para Spacing. So it's already styled with paragraph spacing, ready to use, go ahead and click OK, and when you do, that now appears here inside the Style Sheets Palette.
Now what we want to d,o is place type directly into this text frame, so just like before, let's double-click on the frame to activate the Type Tool, and then use our new keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+P or Command+Shift+P on the Mac to bring up the Place dialog box once more. Now our last window we were in should have been Photoshop files, so let's back out into the Project Files, and go back into the Word files. Now we have already used one of these files for import, let's this time select Sculpture copy, again, we are not going to choose to Show Import Options permanently, but we will hold down the Shift key and click Open to temporarily bring out that dialog box, and make sure that Remove Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables is selected, so we simply remove anything that has been applied in the Word file. Now if we go ahead and say, OK, the type will automatically flow into the frame we had selected, and you may notice that it's come in with the Intro Text style automatically applied, the same one we used on the first page. That's why it has been done. It was the last selected style, and is automatically taken on that attribute. It's not a problem, we are going to change that.
First off, press Ctrl+A or Command+A on the Mac to select all of the type, including the stuff we can't see, we are not actually seeing all of the type that is inside this particular story, and then come across to the Paragraph Styles and click on the Body Copy Para Spacing style to format that the way that we need. Now if we go back to the Main Selection Tool, and do bear in mind that this is not a time where you can use that V keyboard shortcut, because you have Type selected. If you hit any key on the keyboard right now, all of that type will be deleted and replaced with the character that you clicked. So come over and just select the tool here in the Tools Palette, we can now see the type white on the background that's formatted and ready to go. The important thing we are looking at here is what's going on in the lower right hand side of the frame. Let's zoom up on that and just have a look, you can see that the type is actually flowing beyond the boundaries of the box, that is signified by the small red plus icon here. This simply says Overflow. There is more type in here than we are allowed to see with this particular size text frame.
This is the reason we generated the one on the right hand side, because we want to link these two together, and have the text automatically flow from one to the other. Go ahead and use the keyboard shortcut to fit the entire spread in the window, and now, click on the small red plus and you will notice that the cursor now becomes loaded up with text. Very similar to when we placed the Illustrator file a while ago and the icon looked like a PDF, this one looks like it has a column of text ready to play with, that's exactly what it is doing. If we now position the cursor over the other textframe on the right hand side, the cursor changes to a small chain link icon, meaning if we now click, the two text frames are connected together, and the text flows from one end to the other. Now you can also check that by going to the View menu, and going down to choose Show Text Threads. When you do, and you have a text frame selected, you can see the line that draws between them shows exactly where the text flows out of one and into the other. So just another visual check there.
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