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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 identity.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>Crowe 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, above the
filmstrip graphic but within the 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. With the text frame selected, click the Fit Frame
to Content button in the Control panel.

If you don’t see this button, you can Control/right-click the text frame and choose
Fitting>Fit Frame to Content.

When working with a text frame, this option reduces the frame to the smallest possible
size that can contain the existing text.

Fit Frame to
Content button

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