Sizing frames

There are two ways you can modify the size of a frame:

Sizing the frame directly, using the mouse

  1. Click in a frame to make it active - so that the frame edges are visible.

  2. Click anywhere on the border of the frame so that the eight resize boxes appear.

  3. Click on any resize box and drag the frame to the new shape.

Sizing a frame using the frame dialog

More control is available in the frames dialog, where you can set the height and width exactly or set them to be automatic.

  1. Click in a frame to make it active.

  2. Right-click and select the Frames command from the shortcut menu (or select the Frames and Callouts command from the Format menu).

  3. Width - since the Width Type is set at Exactly, set the width you want in the Width box.

  4. Height - choose from:

See also:

Positioning frames

Setting the text offset to frames

Text flow around frames