Hi there. In this video we're going to look at bringing in type from word or an e-mail,
or look at typing it in yourself in InDesign.
We're just going to put in a little bit of text here for our little flier.
You're ready? Let's go and do it.
To add text by yourself grab the type tool,
it's capital T here and all you need to do is click,
hold and drag out a box.
Now, like we do with the images,
if I start kind of dragging over the top of boxes that I've already made,
some weird staff starts happenings.
If I click in here, you can see it's kind of fused
this box with that box and it's kind of a bit weirds,
it's weird InDesign quick anyway.
So what I'm going to do is have nothing selected.
So click on the background,
grab my type tool and what I'm going to do is
click hold and drag a box over here on the side.
Okay, if you need more room,
seize little sliders okay,
we can just move across down the bottom here and we can start typing.
You know, if you can spell helps, okay,
but if I start typing over here,
obviously I can put anything I like.
I can grab my black arrow to resize the box to the size that needs to be.
What I'm going to do is import some texts.
I'm going to use this text box.
Okay, I'm going to use my black arrow and just move it over here.
What I'm going to do is select on this type with my type tool,
okay, which is the capital t. Just delete it all.
I'm going to import some texts.
There's two ways of doing it. You could do just caveman style with works perfectly.,
I'm going to jump to Word,
actually let's open the Word document.
So it's part of your exercise files.
Finds your exercise files.
Here is mine on my desktop,
I've downloaded it under 01 Flier.
There's one in equal flier text.
I'm going to double-click and open it.
I'm going to copy all this texts so select that it'll go to edit, copy.
If you're on a PC, it's slightly different.
Is a copy button in the corner or Control C. So whatever you do.
Select it, copy it,
and jump back into InDesign,
and in here I'm going to paste it.
Okay, you can totally do it that way.
Often that's what I do. You might be copying from an e-mail or from anything.
What you can do though, to be a bit more official and to get
a few more options in that copy is I'm going to delete it all,
have my cursor flashing in hand and I'm going to go to File,
I'm going to go to Place,
and I've got some text.
I found my 01 Flier,
there is the flier takes so just kind of goes round using Word.
So open and you can see it's dumped it in there.
Now the difference between the two is very little and what we're doing,
but what you can do and what we'll do later on in more,
more advanced sections is if we go to File and we got a place,
there is option here that says options and it says show input options.
It means when I bring in my Word document,
I get to keep some of the styles that might be in there.
Maybe there is a table that contains that sort of stuff.
I'm going to turn that off and hide that for the moment.
But it doesn't really matter how you bring in text as long as we've got some text.
Now on my black arrow, I'm going to drag this box,
and I'm going to make the box so it's kind of fits in here
appropriately within my margins,
kind of under the logo here.
What I want to do is I'm going to use my type tool.
Now you notice I don't jump to the type tool just kind of
double-click inside the box and it automatically jumps to the type tool.
That's kind of up to you. So I'm going to select title
and I'm going to do some basic type stuff now.
Okay. So if you are happy with formatting type, you might want to skip along.
We're going to do some of the basics.
We're going to pick a font,
was going to pick Arial because I know everyone's got Arial,
it can be a Spell Arial or use Arial Bold for bits of it.
I'm going to select all again,
and along the top you've got these two options.
Okay. Now, you might be happy with bold and sizes and stuff,
but you'll notice that these two here have
very different kind of see things and we need a lot of them.
So I can see among its character and paragraph is the actual names of these.
So character has my basic character stuff.
You can see all the way down here there's some paragraphs,
so that's only because my screen is very large.
If you've got a smaller laptop,
you might not be able to see any of these.
You're going to have to jump to paragraph and you can see there.
So you might have to toggle between these two.
So I want to go to the one that says aligns center,
I'm going to highlight this topic and I'm going to make it my colors over here.
I'm going to select the,
I'm not going to use dark green at all.
I'm actually just going use white.
So which is piper over here.
Okay, select the text Peter piper,
I'm going to go back to character.
I'm going to make it all caps.
So I'm going to capitalize it all.
In terms of the font size,
I'm going to pick a font size.
What font size? I don't know.
I'm going to go to about there.
Okay. So 22.0.
Go back to my black arrow, clicking the background.
It's maybe a little bit close to this black arrow come down a little bit.
Kind of things we want to do is I'm going to select this make it a little bigger.
I'm going to use my green.
I'm going to use the mid green.
This last kind of URL here,
I'm going to select it all make the same size when you use the dark green.
Black arrow, click out and that my friends is the basics of importing ticks.
You can either just draw text box copy and paste that into it,
or you can go to File Place up to you.
We're not going to go through everything like this font selected here.
I'm not going to go through what does subscript
and tracking will look at some of the more advanced ones a little bit later on,
but there are the basics in here and everyone knows what banner,
right aligners and left aligners, I hope.
If you're not sure on some of them experiment,
we will go through more and more as we get through this course.
But for the moment now we've got our font,
we've got are text in, we've got some images.
Let's get on to our next video.