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Did you ever struggle to arrange objects on a page so text wrap affected some frames but not others? The classic example is that of an image with a caption, where you want the image to push away other text, but leave the caption in place.
One solution is to make the caption text frame ignore Text Wrap. To do that, open the caption frame’s options. Choose Object > Text Frame Options, or Option/Alt-double-click on the frame. In the General options pane, select Ignore Text Wrap.
Voila! The caption stays where you want it but the rest of the text makes room for the image.
Another alternative is to not apply Text Wrap to the image, but instead to group the image with the caption text frame, and apply the Text Wrap to the group.
This article was last modified on July 20, 2021
This article was first published on March 1, 2016
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