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Hi there! In this video we’ll be talking about 
‘text wrap’ in InDesign, so let’s get started.

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I have this document here, filled with text 
already, so I need to place an image in the center  

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of this page. Let me grab the rectangle frame 
tool, and make a frame in here, and with my frame  

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selected, let’s go to file, and then place, and 
locate the image on the computer, and hit open.

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Let’s click the image, to select it, and then 
right-click, and go to fitting, and then select  

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‘fit frame to content’ option, and the image 
shall expand to fill in the frame. Let’s drag  

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to center-align the image. At this point, the text 
is hidden behind the image, so let’s change that,  

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by going to window, and then ‘text wrap.’ You 
can see that ‘no text wrap’ option is selected,  

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at the moment. Click the image once, to select 
it, and then click the icon right next to the  

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selected option, which says ‘wrap around bounding 
box’, and the text should roll around the image,  

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or the bounding box, so to speak. However, the 
problem is, that it is still touching the image,  

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so we need to have some sort of padding around 
the image. Click the link icon in the centre,  

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so that updating one side, updates all. 
Increase the size of one of the sides,  

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and it shall add a padding all around the image. 
I think ‘p6’ should be good enough, and that’s how  

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you text wrap around an image. Now let’s move 
on to another page, and try it with a letter.

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With the text tool, make a large text box on 
the pasteboard, and type in the letter ’T’.  

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Let’s select the letter, and 
change the font to ‘Poppins Black’,  

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or any other chunky font of you choice, 
and update the font size to 300 points.  

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If you move this letter on top of the text, and 
click the ‘wrap around bounding box’ option,  

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this is what happens. It is wrapping around 
bounding box, which is the frame, in this case,  

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and that’s not what we want. We want the text 
to come close to the edges of the letter, so  

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to do that, with the letter selected, go to type, 
and select ‘create outlines.’ So now, the letter,  

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is not a font anymore, it’s been transformed into 
a shape. Let’s center-align the shape, and let’s  

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zoom-in as well. This time we need to select the 
third option from the left, which is ‘wrap around  

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object shape’, and you see, the text is almost 
touching the boundaries of the shape. If you try  

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the second option, you’ll find the bounding box 
returns, to haunt us, and we don’t want that, so  

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select the third option from the left. The reason 
why you see only one offset option highlighted is  

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because, the shape is not rectangular, like 
in case of the image we inserted earlier. So  

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when we increase the offset, it will increase 
proportionately from all sides, as you can see.

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You can play with wrap options here 
as well, so if we select ‘right side’,  

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text is thrown to the right side,’left 
side’ selection also gives similar result.  

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Selecting ‘both right and left sides’, 
is the most apt option for our shape.  

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‘Slide towards spine’, will slide the text 
towards the spine area, which is the center  

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of the two facing pages. Similarly, ‘slide 
away from spine’, will throw the text to the  

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opposite side of the spine. ‘Largest area’, 
will not make much of a difference than ‘both  

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right and left sides’, so we’re going to 
stick to ‘both right and left sides’ option.

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Lastly, you can also try ‘jump object’ 
option from top, and you shall find it  

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restricting the text on both sides of the 
shape. ‘Jump to next column’ will even throw  

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away the text beneath the shape, to the next 
page, so depending upon the situation, you,  

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as a designer need to decide what to chose 
here, unless clearly specified otherwise,  

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by the client. The ‘invert’ checkbox, will 
invert the area on both sides of the shape,  

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so at the moment there is text, and check 
the invert box, and the text is swept clean.

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Let’s uncheck the invert box to get 
back to our settings. It’s a fun tool,  

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and makes your text as creative, as you can 
make it to appear, so do make good use of it.

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Alright guys! That concludes our session,  

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and I’m going to see you in the 
next one, in just a bit. Good bye!