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12. Choose ATC Coral Normal in the font-search menu.
After choosing the font you want, you should notice that the Control panel shows
ATC Coral in the Font Family menu and Normal in the Font Style menu.

The applied font appears The specific style appears
in the Font Family menu. in the Font Style menu.

13. Click the Up-Arrow button for the Font Size field until you see a red icon on Note:
the right edge of the frame.

Each time you click, you increase the type size by one point. The red X is the overset You can also choose from
text icon; it indicates that more text exists than will fit into the frame. the common preset type
sizes in the menu, or type
Click these buttons to change a specific size in the field.
the type size by 1 point. Overset text icon
If you type in the Font
Size field, you don’t need
to type the unit “pt” for
the type size; InDesign
automatically applies the
measurement for you.

When you see an overset text icon, you can: Note:
• Edit the text to fit the space, which is usually not allowable for a graphic designer.
Press Command/Control-
• Make the frame larger to fit the text (which is not always possible). Shift-> to increase the
• Add more frames to the story and thread the text into the extra frames, which is type size by 2 points,
also not always possible. or Command/Control-
• Reduce the type size or adjust other formatting options to make the type fit into Shift-< to decrease the
the available space (which might make text unreadable). type size by 2 points.

14. Click the Down-Arrow button once to reduce the type size by 1 point.
This allows all the type to fit in the frame.

15. Click anywhere in the selected text to place the insertion point.
This removes the highlight, indicating that the characters are now deselected.

16. Save the file and continue to the next exercise.

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