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• • February 10, 2015 at 9:39 am #73238
    Oh for Chrissake!

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    Hi folks,

    I imagine that using the Text Wrap feature is the key to what I want to accomplish but I can’t figure it out. Of course if I’m off-base, please suggest something else.

    I have Text Box A. Underneath is Text Box B.

    I am creating a resume. Pretty much each paragraph gets it’s own text box.

    I want to apply Text Wrap to Text Box A, so that it will nudge Text Box B downwards. All it does right now is overlap Text Box B.

    If I can figure out how to apply this, I can apply it to all my text boxes and then as I type up above and expand the text box afterwards, every box underneath will shift downwards.

    THANKS!!

  • February 10, 2015 at 10:59 am #73240
    Colleen Shannon

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    Window->Text Wrap
    Undo the Lock, set wrap on bottom and left
    Wrap to: Both Right & Left Sides

    Window->Styles->Object Styles
    (while frame is selected)->Create New Style, select Object Style 1, rename add keyboard shortcut

  • February 10, 2015 at 11:08 am #73241
    Oh for Chrissake!

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    Yeah, that’s exactly what I tried before. That’s the obvious solution, but it’s not working. The top box’s wrap just covers up the bottom one. It doesn’t push the bottom box downwards at all. Something I’m misssing?

  • February 10, 2015 at 11:24 am #73242
    Oh for Chrissake!

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    More techncially speaking, what’s happening is that the Wrap feature does move the text for box B downwards, but not the box itself.

    Isn’t there a feature in InD where some kind of wrap feature moves the object frame, not just the text inside of it?

  • February 10, 2015 at 11:39 am #73244
    Fugue

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    I would use a combination of a table, anchored text frames, and Auto-Size.

    

    First, I created an empty text frame and inserted a table (1 column, 3 rows; no strokes.) I set the cells to be At Least .0417″ with .0556″ top and bottom insets. Changing the top and/or bottom inset values will increase or decrease the amount of space between the text frames.

    Second, I created my first text frame, and in the Text Frame Options, I selected Auto-Size: Height Only, expand/contract on the bottom of the frame.

    Then, I selected that entire frame and cut it. Then, using the text tool, I put my cursor in the top cell of my table and pasted the text frame. This makes the text frame an anchored object within that cell.

    Finally, I made two more text frames and put them as anchored objects in the next two cells.

    The Auto-Size function of the text frames will allow them to expand/contract as you type/delete text. The table cells will likewise expand/contract as each text frame gets larger or smaller.

    This actually allowed me to do some interesting things with the anchored object text frames. When I rotated one so that it was taking up more vertical space, the cell that was holding it expanded, maintaining the correct amount of space between frames.

    

    However, things started to fall apart when I went into the Anchored Object Options and set its position to “Custom.” This allowed me to drag the text frame outside of the visible boundaries of the table… but the cell stopped reacting to the size of the text frame.

  • February 10, 2015 at 12:48 pm #73250
    Colleen Shannon

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    Oh, I didn’t understand. This sounds way too complicated for a resume. Why not create everything, then use Align->Distribute Spacing?

  • February 10, 2015 at 1:34 pm #73252
    Oh for Chrissake!

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    You’re right, it is complicated. But it’s a project I set out for myself. : )

    By the way, I like your suggestion about Distribute. Question though, is there a way to access Distribute Spacing in the back end, as in without using the Align Panel? I’m thinking for my purposes that I would want to make it part of a style. And I can’t seem to find the setting for that in any of the Create New (Object, Character, or Paragraph) Style dialog boxes.

    And Fugue, thank you for your suggestion as well!

    Jesse

  • February 10, 2015 at 9:51 pm #73259
    Tom Pardy

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    Text wrap is exactly what its name suggests. It will push TEXT aside so that the text wraps around an object. But it won’t push another OBJECT aside (which is what your text block is). The only possible exception I can think of is if a text block is turned into an inline object within other text that will be pushed aside — but that sounds far too complicated for what you are attempting. The table idea sounds much easier to impliment.

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