Sometimes it’s the little tips that can relieve the biggest frustrations. For example, it always made me crazy that I couldn’t drag the left or right edge handle of a very short text frame to make it wider because the dang “in port” and “out port” gets in the way. After all, if you click on one of those, you load the Place cursor, right?
Grrr. Then someone mumbled to me that the solution was (get ready for an extraordinary revelation) you have to actually click-and-drag the in or out port. As long as you drag, instead of just clicking, on the port, it acts like a handle. It was literally so obvious that I didn’t see it. Sigh.
Sadly, what you can not do is double-click on the port to “fit width to text” (as you can do with a true side handle). To do that, you’d need to drag the frame wide enough, then double-click on the lower-right corner handle.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on December 26, 2007
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