How do you lock the Image Frame and Contents frame together?

[Nohjekim]

Hi

InDesign CS4 question.

I should have asked this a long time ago, but I got used to just dragging a big image frame and then switching to the white selection arrow and moving the contents to where I want it and then dragging the cropping frames to the size.

Then positioning the image and within it.

But there are time when I just want to drag the image to another location.

Sometimes I can and sometimes I can't.

When it will not move the two frames at the same time how do I lock them together.

I really looked for a solution but I must not be describing what I'm trying to do because I can't find anything.

Any help appreciated!

Mike

[BartonGarrett256]

It’s a horrible feature, it creates endless irritation.  I’d like to be able to set a default where the brown box is never selectable, I do that work in Illustrator or Photoshop. You’ve made it too complicated Adobe. Or you need smarter customers than me. 

[BobLevine]

You've posted this in two very old threads that have both explained how to handle this. Perhaps reading through them both will shed some light.

[Steve Werner]

With graphics, Adobe InDesign has had two bounding boxes (one for the graphic frame, one for the content) since version 1.0.

Literally millions of people have learned to use it, and it's been well explained in this thread.

If you have a feature request you can post it at the link below and it will be voted on and considered:

Feature Requests/Bugs

Because this is such an old thread, I'm locking it now. It will be read-only.