Now the reason that we have done that, if we go ahead and unlock the Tints layer again, come on up to the Text Tool because we are going to generate a text frame. If you position the cursor over the gray frame, have a look at the difference. When it's on the left side, it has a small rectangular area around the outside. That tells us we are going to generate a new text frame. When you roll it over the gray shade, it becomes a more oval icon, this tells us if we click, it will turn this gray frame into a text frame. We don't have to go through the Object Menu to choose it like before.
So this is more of a safety feature I am trying to point out here. This is why we lock it. If you go ahead and re-lock the Tints layer, you will notice that the icon stays the same wherever it is because we are free to generate new frames as and when.
Now the new one that we are going to create is going to align here in the central column over the gray shade and line perfectly to this 30 millimeter guide that we have here. So I am just going to position the cursor right there, click-and-drag to draw ourselves a new text frame that snaps into that right-hand side and then come back up to the Main Selection Tool again.
The reason we are doing that is we want to change the height of this. I want a specific height for this text frame. If you come on up to the Control Palette, you can see that there is the X and the Y values, which we have already briefly seen with the guide, but there is also width and height over here, which gives us the physical dimensions of the object currently selected.
Now we want a height of 75 millimeters, but try this emphasize. If we highlight the height here, keying 75 and say OK, you will see what happened to the object is it actually looked like it moved in this case. It didn't, it did get smaller, but we wanted it to stay aligned at the top here and only scale up from the bottom. Well, it was currently scaling from the center and that's what's defined over here in the Anchor Point Option.
So any change you make to any of these four elements, will apply around a specific point of scaling, in this case, it was the center. So undo what you just did, come back up to the Anchor Point Options here and make sure that any one of the top three are selected. I am going to go for the top center at this point in time. You can see that it's correct, it tells us this item is positioned 30 millimeters down from the top, therefore, it snaps to our guide. Now we are free to select the height value here, keying 75, say OK, it's exactly 75 now, but the top didn't move, and that's again perfect alignment inside of InDesign.
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