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plACe An externAl text file
You just learned how to create a text frame and create new text. You can also import
text that was created in an external word-processing application, which is a common
situation when creating page-layout jobs (more common, perhaps, than manually
typing text in a frame). In this exercise, you import text that was saved in a rich-text
format (RTF) file, which can store type-formatting options as well as the actual text.

1. With gcm-letterhead.indd open, make sure nothing is selected in the
layout and then choose File>Place.
Remember, you can choose Edit>Deselect All, or simply click in an empty area of the
workspace to deselect any selected objects.

2. Navigate to contact.rtf in the WIP>GCMarket folder. Make sure none of
the options are checked at the bottom of the dialog box and click Open.

The loaded Place cursor
shows a preview of the
text you’re importing.

3. Click the loaded Place cursor near the bottom of the page, but within the
pink margin guides.
The resulting text frame is automatically created as wide as the defined margin guides,
and extending down to the bottom margin guide on the page.

Placing text from a file
automatically creates a text
frame to contain the text.

4. Choose the Selection tool. Click the bottom-right corner of the frame and
drag up until the frame is just large enough to contain the text.

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