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Manage text flow

Manage text flow - Illustrator Tutorial

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Manage text flow

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Now let's talk a bit about handling overflow in a text frame you may have seen this before when we saw the little red plus sign showing up so in this case I have some additional text in this frame that doesn't fit inside it. If I click on the plus sign I can load that text into my cursor and I can click and drag to define a new box or text frame and then these two frames will be connected and this is called threading text. So there is a text flow set up between these two text objects and if I change one the other one will either load more text into it or move it back into this first frame. Now if you ever wish to break the thread between the two text frames you can just select this object and click on it twice. Now this shape is disconnected it stays as a text frame it will just have no text inside it because everything is loaded back into this first frame so there is no text flow left. There's also a way to wrap text around an image so for instance if I have this leaf here and I…

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