In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin explains InDesign’s Ignore Text Wrap function. Use this option to protect text from being affected by nearby objects with text wrap applied. Make Ignore Text Wrap part of an object style to avoid having to continually apply the option manually.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on September 11, 2019
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