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Fiojja
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June 28, 2023
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Move text frame relative to another text frame

  • June 28, 2023
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I am trying to make Text Frame 2 resize base on the placement of Text Frame 1. Text Frame 1 is set to auto size downwards based on the text. Beneath it, I want Text Frame 2 to also shift downwards relatively based on the placement of Text Frame 1. So if Text Frame 1 needs to go down another line (which ends up being, say, 20 pixels) Text Frame 2 also shifts down another line (so another 20 pixels). Or perhaps another way of thinking about it is I want these text frames to always be relatively spaced from each other.

 

This feels like a very simple problem, but I must be using the wrong terms to find the results I'm looking for, because the only info I can find is how to use auto size, which I think doesn't help me here.

    Correct answer Eugene Tyson

    Why use 2 text frames - just continue the text in 1 text frame and set your spacing between the paragraphs.

     

    If you want text frames to be consistently placed alongside each other - you will need to Anchor the text frame.

    When you Anchor the text frame you then set the distance by using the options - or even custom settings. 

     

    https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/anchored-objects.html#:~:text=To%20anchor%20an%20existing%20object,anchored%20object's%20position%20is%20inline.

     

     

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    Eugene TysonCorrect answer
    Adobe Expert
    June 28, 2023

    Why use 2 text frames - just continue the text in 1 text frame and set your spacing between the paragraphs.

     

    If you want text frames to be consistently placed alongside each other - you will need to Anchor the text frame.

    When you Anchor the text frame you then set the distance by using the options - or even custom settings. 

     

    https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/anchored-objects.html#:~:text=To%20anchor%20an%20existing%20object,anchored%20object's%20position%20is%20inline.

     

     

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      FiojjaAuthor
      New Participant
      June 29, 2023

      I hope this doesn't seem too ignorant, but if I'm copy and pasting information quickly from another form, isn't it a lot faster if they're in separate frames? Otherwise I'll have to carefully select the information I want to overwrite for each page instead of just CTRL+A, CTRL+C. I also don't speak the language that some of this information is coming from, so it's not easy for me to make sure I've pasted everything correctly. I haven't seen a faster way to get this information loaded into the file, so copy-pasting is where I'm at.

       

      I did read about anchoring but I was only able to figure out how to do it with images. If you say it's possible with text frames, I will keep working on it.

       

      Thank you for explaining this to me, this is for my friend who gave me recipes from her Finnish grandmother for a cookbook for her mother. This has been a learning curve, and I appreciate that you took the time to make it a bit easier for me! Thank you!

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