Hi there in this video, we're going to look at doing anchored objects that aren't in the flow of text. Well, at least they're on the side here, which this if I add some returns, it flows along, but it's not in the particular text box. I'm gonna show you some cool tricks for doing that. Plus how to do it with like multiple objects by grouping them. Let's go and do that now in in design. Alright. The first thing is let's bring in our image. So let's go to file and go to place on page. One hour tables page. Okay. And I'm gonna bring it in from the exercise files. Oh three magazine and there's one in there called Image One coffee table. Okay, I'm gonna bring mine in over here. It's just a random size. Okay, We'll change it in a second. So I've got this guy here now, a normal anchored object. All you do is grab your black arrow, you cut it. So edit cut. Okay, get your cursor where you want it to be, let's say here, okay, and then you just paste it. So I've used edit paste and it means it ki...

nd of flows up and down with the text, but I want to do some more advanced stuff. Okay, So I'm gonna put it back over there. I'm gonna do a couple of things. I want to add a title over here. Something's going to be called coffee tables. I'm gonna use my paragraph style before. Where are you stiles? We created a subheading one. We'll use that and that doesn't work because I did some stuff to it when we're working with the keep options. So I'm gonna click off in the background nothing selected. Open up subheadings go down to keep and I'm going to say anywhere, so zero anywhere. For some reason I got this paragraph shading as well which we can turn off here under paragraph shading. Turn that off. Okay, cool. So all I wanted was a heading. Okay, and but what I'd like to do is instead of getting it to flow with text, I wanted to be out here but kind of connected to the flow of text. So that's what we're gonna do. The quick, easy option is that we see this blue box here. Okay. Black arrow blue box. What you can do is you can say you drag, drag, drag, I want you to flow along there. The cool thing about that is you can see it's got like a little anchored object down. Okay, so even though it's not in the flow of text, watch this if I put in return that goes along with the text. So even like that just like that, that's super handy. Okay, especially if you've got like diagrams that pop out on the side that help explain things that are in the text. Okay, so that's some more advanced anchored objects. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna undo until it was back over here. Okay, Without it being linkedin and I want to show you a couple of other things, let's say that I want to maybe put this inside of a circle. Okay, so we're gonna kind of use our options that we did earlier on some of the drawing techniques. I'm gonna use the ellipse tool, I'm gonna hold shift to draw on her lips, okay? And with this right over the top of this guy, I'm gonna cut the image. Okay? And select on my circle and go to edit paste into. Okay, that gives me my image inside this circle, which is awesome. Next of all I want are an ellipse and what I want to do is have no film. I actually don't have that circle selected over here, have nothing selected then go to her lips and say we're like no Phil and like a stroke of our MF green which is under MF Okay, I'm going to go up to about six points to draw on the lips roughly about that sort of size. Maybe increase it up to the size and I want to stick this together with these two and and I wanted to flow along with the text. First of all, I want to align it so I can see my align panel over here. You might have to go to window object align okay and go you and you. Okay, so align vertical and horizontal, but watch this if I can't anchor this now, that little blue box isn't there? I can't cut and paste it in. It just doesn't work. So if you ever find yourself in this position, we've got two things kind of two separate things. I'm gonna scare mine down for no reason. Um You have to group them first, so select both of these. Go to object group or command G. On a Mac or control D. On a PC. Then grab this little blue box and just drag them in. Okay, now that little group will follow along. Okay, so the easy thing is grabbing the blue box and dragging it where you need it to be. And just a little extra kind of information is that if you have got multiple parts like the image and the circle, they need to be grouped first and then they can flow along with the text. All right, that's it. For anchored objects. Let's get on to the next video.

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Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC

Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC

Lesson Info

31. Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC

Lessons

Introduction To Adobe InDesign CC Advanced

Getting Started With The Adobe InDesign CC Advanced Class

Adjusting Your Workspace For Maximum Amazingness

Setting The Default Font Size For New Documents Adobe InDesign

Special Features For Typekit & Open Type Fonts

Where To Get Great Free Fonts For Use In InDesign

Mastering Your Fonts In Adobe InDesign CC

What The Font - Font Guess In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Pick Beautiful Font Pairings In Adobe InDesign CC

Quiz - Fonts

Free Icons Using Adobe Market In InDesign CC

How To Use The Color Theme Tool In Adobe InDesign CC

Using Color Modes In Adobe InDesign CC

Importing Colors & Setting Default Colors In Adobe InDesign CC

Finding Great Colours Using Adobe Color For Use In Adobe InDesign CC

Appearance Of Black & Proofing Colours

Draw Lot Of Shapes At Once InDesign Gridify Live Distribute

Quiz - Color

How To Make Arrows In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Draw Complex Flowers In Adobe InDesign CC

Quiz - Drawing

How Text Boxes Can Auto-Expand In Adobe InDesign CC With Auto Size

Placeholder Text Alternatives In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Add Paragraph Borders & Shading In Adobe InDesign CC

Paragraph Vs Single Line Composer In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Make Paragraphs Span 2 Columns In Adobe InDesign CC

Mastering Justification In Adobe InDesign CC

Mastering Hyphenation Options Using Adobe InDesign CC

Optical Margin Alignment In Adobe InDesign CC

The Secret Power Of Keep Options In Adobe InDesign CC

Advanced Anchored Objects In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Use Conditional Text In Adobe InDesign CC

Quiz - Paragraph Goodness

How To Create Pie Charts & Bar Graphs In Adobe InDesign CC

Quiz - Charts & Infographics

The Pros & Cons Of The Various Interactive Types In InDesign CC

How To Create An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Add Interactive Page Transitions In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Add Navigation To An Interactive PDF In Adobe InDesign CC

What Is Publish Online In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Publish Your Adobe InDesign Publish Online Documents

How To Add Video To Adobe InDesign CC Documents

How To Create Interactive Button Triggered Animations In InDesign CC

How To Make A Multi State Object In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Add Adobe Animate CC To InDesign CC Files

Adding Maps & Calendars To Interactive Documents In InDesign CC

How To Create QR Codes In Adobe InDesign CC

Quiz - Interactive Documents

Keyboard Shortcuts In Adobe InDesign CC That Will Change Your Life

Keyboard Shortcuts

How To Automatically Place Lots Of Text Onto Multiple Pages In InDesign CC

How To Make A Cross Reference In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Create An Index In Adobe InDesign CC

Add Document Name Automatically To The Page In InDesign Using Text Variables

How To Use The Adobe InDesign CC Book Feature

Quiz - Long Documents

Changing Preferences For Advanced InDesign Users

How To Speed Up Your Workflow For Advanced InDesign CC Users Styles

Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

Advanced Paragraph Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Use & Map Word Styles In With Adobe InDesign Styles

How To Create Nested Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Create A Grep Style In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Use A Next Style In Adobe InDesign CC

Advanced Object Styles In Adobe InDesign CC

Quiz - Styles

Best Practices For Working Across Multiple Documents In Adobe InDesign

How To Use Adobe Stock With Adobe InDesign CC

How To Crop Images Inside Of Text In Adobe InDesign CC

Using Adobe Comp CC To Make InDesign Layouts On Your Mobile Phone Or Ipad

Quiz - Images

Advanced Use Of CC Libraries In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Get The Most Of Photoshop & Illustrator In Adobe InDesign CC

How To Create A PDF Form Using Adobe InDesign CC