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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 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 saved in a rich-text format ( RTF) fi le,
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 within the pink margin guides,
approximately 0.5″ up from the bottom margin guide.
Th e resulting text frame is automatically created as wide as the defi ned 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 until the frame is just large enough to contain the text.

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