Editing a design snippet

1. Right-click on the text in the largest bubble in the design snippet. The text shortcut menu appears.

2. Select Select all text. All the text in the design snippet is now selected.

3. Make sure CAPS LOCK is selected on your keyboard.

4. Type TO BE OR NOT TO BE? Your text appears in the frame, overwriting the text already there. Not all the text is visible because the currently selected font is too large for the bubble.

5. Select all the text you have just typed.

6. From the Point Size drop-down list box in the Text Tools, select 14. The text is now fully visible.

You are now going to repel the main article text around the large bubble in the design snippet. This means that text will no longer be hidden beneath the shape, but instead will be positioned around the shape, or ‘repelled’ by it.

1. Move the mouse pointer over the frame with the selected text until it turns into a four-headed arrow.

2. Click the mouse button. The frame remains selected, but the text is deselected.

3. Press the TAB key on your keyboard. The largest frame on the page is selected.

The TAB key can be used to cycle through frames.

4. Keep pressing the TAB key until the design snippet is reselected as a whole. The largest bubble is also selected.

5. From the Frame menu, select Properties. The Frame Properties dialog box appears.

6. Make sure the Shape tab is selected.

7. In the Repel group box, select Frame Repels Text.

Any changes you make when inside this dialog box, take effect immediately.

8. In the Vertical Padding spin box type 0.3.

9. In the Horizontal Padding spin box type 0.3.

10. Click on the Close button in the top right-hand corner of the dialog box.

Your picture should now look like the one below: