Tip of the Week: Revealing Overset Text
How to quickly expand a text frame to reveal any overset text.
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Got overset text you need to reveal by expanding the text frame? You don’t have to manually drag the frame to fit the text. Just select the frame and press Command+Option+C/
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on May 3, 2016
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