adding & editing text

Question 1

how can you select either 1 word, 1 line or 1 paragraph?

Answer 1

Drag the I‑bar cursor over a character, word, or an entire text block to select it.

Or

Double-click a word to select it. Spaces next to the word are not selected.

Or

Triple-click anywhere in a line to select a line.
NOTE: If the Triple Click To Select A Line preferences option is deselected, triple-clicking selects the entire paragraph.

If the Triple Click To Select A Line option is selected, quadruple-click anywhere in a paragraph to select the entire paragraph.

Question 2

In order to edit text, what tool icon do you need to activate first?

Answer 2

Select the Type tool T

Question 3

How do you select all of your text in a particular text frame?

Answer 3

Cntrl + A

OR

Quintuple-click

OR

click anywhere in the frame and choose Edit > Select All.

Question 4

Text in InDesign resides inside containers called text **.

Answer 4

frames

A text frame is similar to a text box in QuarkXPress and a text block in Adobe PageMaker.

Question 5

Use the *** tool for general layout tasks such as positioning and sizing a frame (for both text and graphic frames) - what does this tool icon look like?

Answer 5

Selection tool
It’s a black arrow.

P.S. selection tool for positioning and sizing

Question 6

Use the *** ** tool to alter a frame’s shape.

Describe the tool icon?

Answer 6

Direct Selection
It’s a white arrow.

Police officer dressed in white using white arrow to direct (point) a shape into a different shape

Question 7

Use the ***** tool to create a plain text frame for horizontal text, and the Vertical Type tool to create a plain text frame for vertical text.

Use the same tools to edit existing text in a frame.

Answer 7

Type

Question 8

Text frames can also be connected to other text frames so that the text in one frame can flow into another frame. Frames that are connected in this way are described as ** .

Answer 8

threaded

And also u can then select all and edit the content in the connected frames at once, instead of having to laboriously do it one by one.

Question 9

Where do you create and edit hyperlinks including email links?

Answer 9

You need the hyperlinks panel:

> Window>Interactive>Hyperlinks

Question 10

Text that flows through one or more (connected - this is the proper term for this) frames is called a ***** .

Answer 10

story

Question 11

Aside from typing text straight into a text frame, how can you place pre-formatted text from Word or rtf files into ID?

Answer 11

You can’t copy and paste, instead:

File>Place> choose file

Question 12

where do you find the spell check?

- both menu and the hot keys

Answer 12

Edit>Spelling

CTRL + I

Question 13

For spelling checking, where do you set the language for your document?

Answer 13

Edit>Prefs>Dictionary

Question 14

For spelling checking, where do you review and set preferences for what exactly your spell check searches for and checks, including enabling ‘dynamic spell check’?

Answer 14

Edit>Prefs>Spelling

Question 15

Select Enable *** ** to underline potentially misspelled words while you type.

Answer 15

Dynamic Spelling

Question 16

Problem: I changed the default dictionary to English UK from English US for my document - but the spell check still highlighted words such as realise as being mis-spelled, why?

What do you have to do to change all the text to English UK?

Answer 16

Because setting the dictionary after having written the text in English US, means the text remains in English US.

Select the all text in a frame (or frames if threaded) and use the ‘Character’ panel to set the language to English UK for that frame and any threaded frames.

So you have to select text frame by frame, unless the frames are connected. There is no way of selecting all text in a document.

Question 17

What does CTRL + A actually do?

Answer 17

It selects everything in your current frame or threaded frames.

So you have to place the cursor in a frame before you can select everything.

Question 18

How do you de-select everything? (2 ways)

How can you check that everything is de-selected?

Answer 18

CTRL + SHIFT + A

I.e. a tweak on the keys for selecting all.

OR

just click on to the pasteboard.

If you look at the layers panel before and after selecting you can see the blue highlight when something on a layer is selected.