Tip of the Week: Reveal Overset Text & Shrink to Fit
This InDesign tip to reveal overset text and shrink text frames to fit was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on June 30, 2016.
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by Michael Ninness
If you see the red plus icon on an unthreaded text frame, select the frame and then press Cmd+Option+C/Ctrl+Alt+C to have the text frame grow vertically just enough so you see all the text in the frame.
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This shortcut works in reverse as well! Meaning, if you only have a small amount of text in a giant text frame, this shortcut will shrink the text frame down to the size of the text within it. (You can also double-click on one of the text frame resize handles if you don’t dream in keyboard shortcuts.)
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hi
i have overtext problem whit cs6
when i copy my document from another computer to mine some of text have over text but the document did not have overtext befor i copy