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Working with Text
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What's a text frame?
A text frame is effectively a mini-page, with:
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Margins and column guides to control text flow.
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Optional preceding and following frames.
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Text and optional inline images that flow through the frame (from the
previous frame and on to the next).
The text in a frame is called a story.
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When you move a text frame, its story text moves with it.
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When you resize a text frame, its story text reflows to the new
dimensions.
Frames can be linked so that a single story continues from one frame to another.
But text frames can just as easily stand alone. Thus in any site, you can create
text in a single frame, spread a story over several frames, and/or include many
independent frame sequences, e.g.
When you select a frame you'll see its bounding box (see Frame 1 above),
indicated by a gray border line plus corner and edge handles, and (if you clicked