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Do you often have to add pull quotes to layouts? Do you do it by creating a new text frame, copying and pasting body text, and then styling it? Here’s a better way. First, go to Type Preferences and enable Drag and Drop Text Editing in Layout View.
Then select the text for your pull quote in the layout.
Start dragging the text, then hold Command+Option (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt (Windows), and drag and drop the text where you want the pull quote to go. InDesign copies the text and puts it in a new frame.
Now, if you want to get really slick, create an object style that applies the paragraph style for your pull quote and auto-sizes the text frame.
And for the icing on the cake: use Quick Apply to apply the object style to the pull quote text frame.
Once you’ve done the set up work of creating the object style, from then on creating a pull quote will be a 3-second job.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on June 2, 2015
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