So you might have a document that actually is just this, you're linking the two pages together. You can just it's the space opening up in between this. Cool? This next one here, we can adjust the space between. You can see it's just one column, click on that, it becomes two columns. What you can do is black arrow width is selected, you'll notice over here there's options for the text frame. I'm gonna make sure it is lined up here, not too worried about the height, but I want it lined up with the edge of this okay, our margin and I want this side to line up with the other side of the margin. Okay you don't want to be drawing two text boxes you just want split this one in half. I'm gonna show you especially if your doing a long document so an annual report might have like 50 pages or 100 pages or some sort of documentation. So if I want two columns because my example here, right, has, where is it? This is where we're gonna end up, okay? Is we're gonna have a first box of text, okay and then we're going to have these two and I could draw one box and link it like we have and then link a second box. So I'm gonna undo because I kinda wanna start with this. So, unless you delete all the boxes, okay, it should all hang around. So it starts with New Zealand, you can see it just pushes over to the next box.
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Same thing if I delete this first box, look what happens. If I had delete to that's on my keyboard, it actually just flows back into here. A couple of things you'll have questions about, is that if I delete this box, what happens to the text. I'll just do it here, can you see? It spills over to that one. Click it once again and I can either make another column, or I can undo that and I can just move down to the next page and paste it down here, so all three boxes are linked. You keep connecting by clicking on this, I've made it small enough so that this box has become overset. So go back to this first box and shrink it down, so I clicked the ones, grab the bottom one, drag it up you can see it spills over into this other box. What I can do is move across here a little bit, okay? And click and drag another box. Don't be afraid to do that when you're new, okay? But let's say I click it once, I've got this thing. You might delete everything and start again. Hit Escape key, delete any random text boxes you might have. As you're like, I didn't know what I was doing, I'm lost. If it goes horribly wrong, just hit the Escape key. Just click it once, okay? And your cursor becomes loaded.
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What you do is, with your black arrow, so your Selection tool, click this little red plus button, just click it once. So just kinda resize it so it's roughly the same size as mine, it doesn't have to be perfect, something like that.
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So I'm gonna show you how to link to text boxes.
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It means I've lost some text, it means that's overset and there's more down here. That brings in my text, okay? Now what happens with text is like it did earlier on in the course, that little red box, I'm always as a designer in InDesign, always keeping an eye out for that box. Don't worry about matching the size, just get it somewhere like that. What I'm going to do is you can see it's kind of it's the same as the image before I can click hold. I don't have to draw a text box and then paste it into it. So I had nothing selected import file, and we're going to use text one, but a copy, click open and the text becomes loaded. So I'll show you this way while we're here. We've got ours sitting in a nice little file. A lot of people just copy and paste, they'll draw a text box, and just paste it out of an email, or out of a Word doc. Let's go back to our Properties panel, and we can click Import File. So double-click page two, and make sure the W key's off, so you can see everything. All right, to get started, make sure you're on our spread here, page two.
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That's what we're gonna be working towards in this video. So linking text boxes, we'll talk about how to create columns as well. Watch this, if I make this box smaller, you see it flows along there. Okay, in this case the text goes from being over here to here, and it flows. Hi there, this video we're gonna look at adding long texts to a document, in our case a brochure, it could be a magazine, it could be an annual report. 5.2 How to Make Columns and Link Text Boxes in InDesign