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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting to Your Class Folder
    • Creating a Project Folder
    • Opening InDesign
    • Creating a New Document
    • Opening an Existing InDesign Project
    • Saving Your Project
  • Working with text
    • Creating a Text Box
    • Moving a Text Box
    • Resizing a Text Box
    • Deleting a Text Box
    • Using Overset Text Button
    • Formatting Text
    • Character Formatting Controls
    • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Working with tools
    • Selection Tools
    • Drawing and Type Tools
    • Transformation Tools
    • Modification and Navigation Tools
  • Working with images
    • Adding an Image to Your Document
    • Resizing an Image and Its Frame
    • Resizing and Repositioning an Image in Its Frame
    • Changing Object Stacking Order
    • Wrapping Text to an Image
    • Deleting an Image
  • Working with shapes, strokes, and color
    • Creating a Shape
    • Creating a Line
    • Creating a Custom Color
    • Creating a Gradient
    • Changing the Fill Color of a Shape
    • Changing the Color of a Stroke
    • Changing the Weight of a Stroke
    • Changing the Stroke Type
    • Removing a Stroke
  • Working with layers
    • Selecting a Layer
    • Locking or Unlocking a Layer
    • Changing Layer Visibility
    • Creating a New Layer
    • Moving a Layer
    • Deleting a Layer
  • Exporting a PDF
    • Exporting a PDF
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  1. Working with text

Using Overset Text Button

To place overset text (unseen text) in new text box, click the overset text icon (small red square with a plus sign in it.) The overset text will load to the cursor. Click and drag to create a new text box that contains the overset text.

  1. In an active text box that contains overset text, click the overset text icon (small red square with a plus sign in it.) The overset text will load to the cursor.

  2. Click and drag to create a new text box that contains the overset text.

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