Hi there in this video, we're going to look at bringing in type from word or an email or look at typing it in yourself in in design. And we're just going to put in a little bit of text here for our little flyer. So you ready? Let's go and do it. Okay. To add text by yourself, grab the type tools, this 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 star stuff happening. So I click in here, you can see it's kind of fused this box with that box and it's kind of a bit weird. It's weird in design quirk 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 rooms, these little sliders okay, We can just move across down the bottom here and we can start diving Okay? No, if you can spell helps. Okay? But if I ...

start typing over here, obviously I can put in anything I like, I can grab my black arrow to resize the box to the size that needs to be okay. And what I'm gonna do is import some text, I'm going to use this text box. Okay? I'm going to use my black arrow. Just move it over here. And what I'm gonna do is select all this type. Okay with my type tool. Okay. Which is the capital T. Just delete it all and I'm going to import some text. There's two ways of doing it. You could do just caveman style would work perfectly. Okay. I'm going to jump to word actually. Let's open the word document. So it's part of your exercise files. So find your exercise files. Okay. Here's mine on my desktop. I've downloaded it under no one flyer. There's one in here called flyer text. I'm gonna double click and open it. Okay. I'm going to copy all this text so I selected it all. Go to edit copy. If you're on a pc, it's slightly different. There's a copy button in the corner or control C. Okay. So whatever you do select it, copy it and jump back into in design. Okay. And in here I'm going to paste it. Okay. You can totally do it that way. Okay and often that's what I do. You might be copying from an email or from from anything. Okay. And 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 here and I'm going to go to file. I'm going to go to place. Okay. And I've got some text. Okay. So I found my 01 flyer. There's the flyer text. So it just kind of goes around using word. Okay, 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 my or more advanced sections is if we go to file and we go to place, this is an option here that says options and it says show import 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's a table of contents 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 with my black arrow, I'm going to drag this box and I'm going to make the box so it kind of fits in here appropriately. Okay, within my margins kind of under the logo here and what I want to do is I'm gonna use my type tool. Now you notice I don't jump to the type tool, I 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 it all and I'm going to do some basic type stuff now. Okay, so if you're happy with formatting type, you might want to skip along, we're going to do some of the basics. Okay, so we're gonna pick a font, we're just going to pick a real because I know everyone's got Ariel, you gotta be able to spell area. I'll use aerial bold for bits of it. Okay. I'm going to select all again and along the top here. 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 settings and we need a lot of them. Okay, so I can see on my I'm on its character and paragraph is the actual names of these. So character has my basic character stuff. Okay. And 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 gonna have to jump to paragraph and you can see there they are. Okay, So you might have to toggle between these two. So I want to go to the one that says align center. Okay. I'm going to highlight this top it and I'm going to make it my colors over here. I'm going to select the I'm not gonna use dark green at all. I'm actually just going to use white. So which is paper over here. Okay. Selected tapes, piper, I'm going to go back to character. I'm going to make it all caps. Okay, 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 point. Okay, go back to my black arrow, click in the background. It's maybe a little bit close to this in my black arrow. Come down a little bit a couple things I want to do is I'm going to select this, make it a little bigger. Okay. And I'm gonna use my green. Okay. So I'm gonna use the mid green, this last kind of U. R. L. Here. I'm going to select it all make it. I'm gonna leave it the same size. We're gonna use the dark green. Alright, Black arrow click out. And that my friends is the basics of importing text. You can either just draw a text box copy and paste it into it or you can go to file place up to you and we're not going to go through everything like with this font selected here. I'm not going to go through what does subscript and tracking. We'll look at some of the more advanced ones a little bit later on. But there are the basics in here and everyone knows what writer line is and left the line. 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 our text and we've got some images. Let's get on to our next video.

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How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign

How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign

Lesson Info

11. How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign

Lessons

InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction

Exercise files & Projects

What Does Adobe InDesign do?

What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?

How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?

New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?

How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign

How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?

How to color the background of a page in InDesign?

Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign

How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign

How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign

How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign

How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign

How to make a simple PDF from InDesign

How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG

Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?

How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document

Class Exercise 1

Quiz - One Page Flyer

Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates

Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images

How to find missing fonts in InDesign?

How to replace images in InDesign?

Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign

Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'

What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?

Quiz - Other people's files

Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign

How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign

How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file

Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign

Production Video 1

What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel

How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign

What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?

How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign

Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.

How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign

Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting

Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign

How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?

What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?

How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?

How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?

How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?

How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.

Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?

InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread

Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure

How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once

How do I import paragraph styles from another document

How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign

How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign

Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign

Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign

How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?

How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap

How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning

How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap

Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?

How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign

How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping

What is Adobe Stock

Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business

How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?

How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?

How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign

How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?

How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?

How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?

How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?

Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?

Quiz - Long Business Document