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Mountain Panther
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January 23, 2020
Question

Change Rectangle Tools to Rectangle Frame Tools InDesign

  • January 23, 2020
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Is there a way to change multiple Rectangle Tools to Rectangle Frame Tools in InDesign?

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Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2020

Keeping in mind that the Rectangle tool draws unassigned frames, and that the Rectangle Frame tool draws graphic frames, in additon to manually changing the frame with Object > Content, you can just select an unassigned frame (drawn with the Rectangle tool) and place an image into it—it will automatically convert to a graphic frame. You don't have to do anything else.

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Community Expert
January 23, 2020

Hi SG Panther Staff,

do you want to change the type of frames ?

 

Menu

Object > Content > Unassigned

Object > Content > Graphic

Object > Content > Text

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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John Mensinger
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2020

I'll go ahead and assume you want to convert objects made with the Rectangle tool to behave as objects that were made with the Rectangular Frame tool.

 

Select all the rectangle objects and choose > Object > Content > Graphic

Ashutosh_Mishra
Inspiring
January 23, 2020

Hi there,

 

Thanks for reaching out. Would you please elaborate what you are looking for? You may also share screenshots or a small video of the process as well to help us understand it better. It'll help us answer you accordingly.
You may also check out Community Thread https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/rectangle-frame-tool-vs-rectangle-tool/td-p/10211166 to know difference between Rectangle Frame vs Rectangle tool. Let us know if it helps.

Looking forward to your response.

 

Regards,

Ashutosh