Text with placeholder macro inserted Placeholder macro replaced by apple graphic Final graphic Placeholder macro Flowing overset text into new text columns You can flow text when all the text won’t fit in a text object. An indicator tells you when an object has overset text. If you select a text object and drag a handle to reduce its size so all the text does not fit, the over- set indicator appears. Click the flow symbol (A) to change the pointer to a text flow pointer (B). You can click or drag the pointer to create a new column for the overset text. To flow text into a column with the same margins as the origi- nal column, click the text flow pointer where you want the upper-left corner of the new column to appear. To flow text into a column with different margins than the original col- umn, drag the text flow point- er to specify the column width. You can flow text between as many columns as you want. Resizing a text column can result in overset text If you click the flow symbol (A), the text flow pointer (B) appears Clicking with the flow pointer creates a new column the same size as the original, and flows the overset text into it. A plus sign replaces the overset sign on the first column, indicating that text flows to another column. A B
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