1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:13,430 Hi, there in this tutorial, we're going to talk about placing text and formatting it in Adobe InDesign, 2 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:14,750 so let's get started. 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,750 I already have a document ready for you now I'm going to go to the type tool. 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:27,740 It's this icon with the capital T. The shortcut to activate the type tool is the letter T.. 5 00:00:29,020 --> 00:00:34,930 There is another option text on a path under the type tool, something we would cover in a later tutorial. 6 00:00:35,590 --> 00:00:41,950 Now let me tell you that InDesign works a little differently when it comes to typing, so you can't 7 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:48,520 just click once on the screen and start typing, much like an illustrator like in the previous lesson, 8 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,090 we've learned that every image has to have a frame around it. 9 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:58,900 Similarly, every text has to have a text box and InDesign, and to create one, you've got to click, 10 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,990 hold and drag to create a text box. 11 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:06,730 So it's entirely up to you how big or small the text box is going to be. 12 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,020 Now that we have of a text box created, I'm free to type. 13 00:01:11,170 --> 00:01:17,080 But since this is just a demonstration, I'd rather fill my text box with some placeholder text. 14 00:01:17,590 --> 00:01:23,110 And there are two ways you can do that with the cursor blinking in the text box. 15 00:01:23,110 --> 00:01:30,400 Either you can go to type and select fill with placeholder text, or you can right click the text box 16 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,550 and select Fill with placeholder text from here and you shall find your text box getting filled in with 17 00:01:36,550 --> 00:01:37,060 text. 18 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,520 Let me zoom in for a better view. 19 00:01:40,510 --> 00:01:42,910 Let's make a few paragraphs out of this text. 20 00:01:43,870 --> 00:01:48,970 When you click inside the text box wherever your cursor lands, you are free to type. 21 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:55,660 You can move your cursor in any direction using the arrow keys when you double click a word that would 22 00:01:55,660 --> 00:01:58,300 get selected when you triple click it. 23 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:00,490 The entire line gets selected. 24 00:02:01,090 --> 00:02:07,570 Quadruple clicking away will select the entire paragraph, and five clicks will select everything in 25 00:02:07,570 --> 00:02:08,440 the text box. 26 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:10,389 It's a nice way to make selection. 27 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:18,250 However, I'd suggest to use command on a Mac or control on a PC to select the entire text inside the 28 00:02:18,250 --> 00:02:18,940 text box. 29 00:02:19,270 --> 00:02:22,420 I think it's any better than clicking five times. 30 00:02:24,330 --> 00:02:29,760 Let's select the first paragraph using the mouse and go to the fonts, drop down and select a different 31 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:30,270 font. 32 00:02:30,780 --> 00:02:36,870 We won't discuss much about fonts as we have a separate lesson, in fact, a separate section dedicated 33 00:02:36,870 --> 00:02:37,560 to fonts. 34 00:02:37,980 --> 00:02:43,800 But this is just to give you an idea how to change fonts in InDesign pretty much like you're doing other 35 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:44,760 software as well. 36 00:02:45,060 --> 00:02:50,190 Similarly, you can select your text and change the font size as well from the toolbar above. 37 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:57,990 When you place the cursor before a word and hit command and right arrow on a Mac or control and write 38 00:02:57,990 --> 00:03:02,370 arrow on a PC, you should be able to skip a lead with each click. 39 00:03:02,820 --> 00:03:08,430 And same is true with Left Arrow as well, except that you're able to move to the left in your text. 40 00:03:09,150 --> 00:03:15,390 When you press command and down arrow on a Mac or control and down arrow on a PC, you should be able 41 00:03:15,390 --> 00:03:16,680 to skip a paragraph. 42 00:03:16,980 --> 00:03:19,620 And same holds good with up arrow as well. 43 00:03:20,130 --> 00:03:25,950 Now, with command, control and arrow keys, if you press shift as well, you will be able to select 44 00:03:25,950 --> 00:03:32,340 the word or paragraph depending upon what arrow keys you click with your text selected, you can even 45 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:36,060 change the alignment from the text alignment options on top. 46 00:03:37,050 --> 00:03:42,210 Let's add a textbox here and also fill it with some placeholder text. 47 00:03:42,690 --> 00:03:48,630 Now, if you look closely to your first text box, you'll find there is a small plus sign on the right, 48 00:03:49,170 --> 00:03:52,110 which in in design's eyes is an error. 49 00:03:52,770 --> 00:03:56,820 What it's telling you is that there is more text than what you see right now. 50 00:03:57,270 --> 00:04:02,970 And a simple way to deal with this is either we can drag the text box to accommodate all the text. 51 00:04:02,970 --> 00:04:04,920 There is all we can. 52 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,780 Click the plus button and our cursor will be loaded with the remaining text. 53 00:04:10,380 --> 00:04:15,990 Now, if we just click anywhere on the document, it will create a text box from margin to margin. 54 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:17,760 But that's not what we want. 55 00:04:18,149 --> 00:04:26,370 So let's hit Command Z on a Mac or Control Z on a PC to undo that action, and you shall find your cursor 56 00:04:26,370 --> 00:04:28,020 loaded again with text. 57 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:32,610 Click and drag to make a text box of the same weight as earlier. 58 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:35,640 And it will restrict your text box to that size. 59 00:04:36,090 --> 00:04:42,450 Now, the best part is that the first text box and this last one are linked, which means if I type 60 00:04:42,450 --> 00:04:47,130 in anything in the first text box, the text will spill over to this one. 61 00:04:47,490 --> 00:04:51,340 So they are connected, even though we have another text box in between. 62 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,620 It does not really matter. 63 00:04:53,310 --> 00:04:58,710 You can even change the font color, and for that, you'll have to select your text and either click 64 00:04:58,710 --> 00:05:03,270 this icon and make your selection or select your text and double. 65 00:05:03,270 --> 00:05:06,390 Click this tea icon here to reveal a color picker. 66 00:05:07,020 --> 00:05:13,260 Here you will find the R Note from our be selected, which is why we can see this red bar here. 67 00:05:13,770 --> 00:05:17,900 We can move the slider to change the colors and pick one of our choice. 68 00:05:17,910 --> 00:05:23,400 Or we can move on to pick the green node here, in which case the slider will turn to green. 69 00:05:23,730 --> 00:05:28,830 And much like with red, you can move the slider and pick a color of your choice from the color space. 70 00:05:29,610 --> 00:05:31,530 And same goes for Blue Note as well. 71 00:05:32,190 --> 00:05:39,030 Once you zero in on a color hit, enter or press OK and your text color will be updated with the text 72 00:05:39,030 --> 00:05:39,690 selected. 73 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,400 You can even click this underlined T icon and it will underlying your text. 74 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:51,090 Click the first one with two capital TS and it'll turn your selected text to capital letters. 75 00:05:51,660 --> 00:05:58,080 The one in the center is the superscript for use in fractions or exponential notations. 76 00:05:58,650 --> 00:06:01,440 Click it again and the text turns back to normal. 77 00:06:01,950 --> 00:06:07,800 Similarly, the T just below it is the subscript use for the same reason and the same way as well. 78 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:14,250 So basically, when you select superscript or subscript from the character panel and menu, InDesign 79 00:06:14,250 --> 00:06:21,060 scaled the selected text and shifts its baseline, which is why it either gets dragged up or down. 80 00:06:21,780 --> 00:06:27,480 The one on the left with a bigger capital T, followed by a smaller one, is used for a special effect. 81 00:06:28,230 --> 00:06:34,530 Let's have the text adobe here in which my A is in uppercase and the rest in lower. 82 00:06:34,950 --> 00:06:39,390 So what I'm going to do is select the letters in lowercase and hit this icon. 83 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,120 And you shall find that although it turns the text into capital letters, but these letters are all 84 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:50,070 for smaller size than the first letter of the word, giving a different feel to it. 85 00:06:50,580 --> 00:06:53,390 Let me type in Adobe here as well in uppercase. 86 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,710 For comparison, you should be able to figure out the difference between the two now. 87 00:06:58,110 --> 00:07:01,530 It's a nice text effect for headings, so do make use of it. 88 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,770 With your text selected, you can change the leading or line spacing using this option here. 89 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:13,710 Either you can use the up and down arrow here or just type in the number and it'll do the job. 90 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:22,020 The option with a Capital V and A and a bi directional arrow underneath is tracking tracking a just 91 00:07:22,020 --> 00:07:26,430 overall letter spacing across a word line or a paragraph. 92 00:07:26,940 --> 00:07:29,460 It affects the overall tone of your design. 93 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,900 Increasing the tracking makes your text low, spacious and refined. 94 00:07:34,410 --> 00:07:37,200 Reducing it makes it look compact and urgent. 95 00:07:37,590 --> 00:07:39,600 Just ensure that you don't overdo it. 96 00:07:40,530 --> 00:07:43,170 Let's click between B and E of Adobe. 97 00:07:43,650 --> 00:07:45,810 This option on top is canning. 98 00:07:46,110 --> 00:07:49,410 Canning adjust the spacing between any two letters. 99 00:07:49,740 --> 00:07:52,890 So with my cursor between the letters B and E. 100 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:58,320 When I do a minus 100 here, it narrows the space between the letters. 101 00:07:58,710 --> 00:08:03,270 Similarly, a positive number here will increase the space between the two letters. 102 00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:08,340 Canning is an important factor, particularly in typography on logo design. 103 00:08:09,420 --> 00:08:15,720 The vertical and horizontal scale and the base line shift are not used as much the use to achieve certain 104 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:16,710 design effects. 105 00:08:16,710 --> 00:08:19,350 But I personally don't use these three options much. 106 00:08:20,070 --> 00:08:22,740 However, skewing is an interesting option. 107 00:08:23,310 --> 00:08:26,100 It's how you can fake or mimic italics. 108 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:29,370 Alright, let's move this text box to the right. 109 00:08:30,090 --> 00:08:32,580 This text box does not have any more text in it. 110 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:34,169 How do we know that? 111 00:08:34,169 --> 00:08:36,600 Because it's not showing any read plus sign. 112 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:37,169 On the right. 113 00:08:37,890 --> 00:08:42,330 So when we click and drag in this anchor point, you see what happens? 114 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:48,990 The text size remains intact, but now that the dimensions of the text box have been reduced, it cannot 115 00:08:48,990 --> 00:08:50,760 accommodate the entire text. 116 00:08:51,210 --> 00:08:54,000 Hence, you can find the red button appearing now. 117 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,280 Let's do a Command Z on a Mac or Control Z on a PC to undo the last action. 118 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:06,510 This time, let's hold command on a Mac or control on a PC and then click and drag in the anchor point. 119 00:09:06,540 --> 00:09:12,690 Much like we did earlier, and you'll find that along with the text box, even the text within is reduced 120 00:09:12,690 --> 00:09:16,260 in size to accommodate all of it within the reduced text box. 121 00:09:16,650 --> 00:09:19,320 Hence, no read plus sign up during this time. 122 00:09:20,980 --> 00:09:23,600 All right, guys, that concludes our session. 123 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:29,450 I hope you've enjoyed it and have learned something from it, so I'm going to see you in the next one. 124 00:09:29,870 --> 00:09:30,380 Goodbye.