

Also know that you can always change your mind when it comes to the content of frames, like adding an image to a text frame instead of text, for instance. You can draw empty placeholder shapes using these drawing tools and later insert content into these frames. They're called unassigned frames, since they don't contain text or graphics, but you can add text or a graphic to them later. The shape tools below the frame tools in the Tools panel are used to create shapes that can be used as graphic elements, like a shape filled with a color. Frames drawn with any of these tools will have an X in the middle, usually to indicate that a graphic will go there. If you press and hold down on the Rectangle Frame tool, you'll see three frame shape tools you can draw with. Now the frame tools found here in the Tools panel are used to create placeholder frames, usually for graphics like a picture or a logo. After drawing a text frame, a cursor will appear in the frame, so you can add text. Then press and drag to create an area where the text will go. To add text, you can create text frames by selecting the Type tool in the Tools panel on the left. If you can't see the gray area to the left of the page, choose View, Zoom Out as many times as necessary till you do.

To start, you'll explore creating a few different types of frames and you'll create them in the gray area off the left side of the page. If you want to add text to your design or you like to import an image, you'll either need to create a frame to hold that content or let InDesign CC create the frame for you as you import or place text or images. And so that you can see the entire page, choose View, Fit Page in Window. You can open this practice file for this tutorial if you want to follow along. In this video, you'll explore the different types of frames available in InDesign CC and the tools used to create them.

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