A frame is like a mini page that sits on top of your standard page. This mini page can be positioned and sized anywhere on the standard page. The text within it can be formatted in the same way as normal text and can also contain pictures or objects. This makes frames ideal for tasks such as creating newsletters.
You can click anywhere in a frame to make it active so that the text within it is editable. Click anywhere on the standard page outside of the frame to return to the body text.
A callout is a frame that points to some other area on your page. This is ideal for creating annotations. A callout has all the properties of a frame, combined with a range of line styles to do the actual pointing.
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