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3 If you like, select text or click in a text frame. Otherwise, the text will be pasted into its own new frame.

4 Do one of the following:

• Choose Edit > Paste. If the pasted text doesn’t include all the formatting, you may need to change settings in the

Import Options dialog box for RTF documents.

• Choose Edit > Paste Without Formatting. (Paste Without Formatting is dimmed if you paste text from another

application when Text Only is selected in Clipboard Handling Preferences.)

You can also drag text from another application and drop it into an InDesign document, or you can insert a text file or

word-processing file into an InDesign document directly from Windows Explorer or Mac OS Finder. The text will be

added to a new frame. Shift-dragging removes the formatting. The option you select in the Clipboard Handling section of

the Preferences dialog box determines whether information such as index markers and swatches is preserved.

Adjust spacing automatically when pasting text

When you paste text, spaces can be automatically added or removed, depending on the context. For example, if you cut

a word and then paste it between two words, a space appears before and after the word. If you paste that word at the

end of a sentence, before the period, a space is not added.

Note: This feature is used primarily for working with Roman text. Also, this feature is available only when the Roman text

to be pasted is set to a Roman language in the Character panel.

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Type (Mac OS).

2 Select Adjust Spacing Automatically When Cutting And Pasting Words, and then click OK.

Drag and drop text

You can use the mouse to drag and drop text in the Story Editor or in the Layout View. You can even drag text from the

Story Editor to the layout window (or vice versa), or into some dialog boxes such as Find/Change. Dragging the text

from a locked or checked-in story copies the text rather than moves it. You can also copy text or create a new frame

when dragging and dropping text.

Jeff Witchel provides a video tutorial about drag and drop at Using InDesign Drag and Drop Text.

1 To enable drag and drop, choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Type (Mac OS),

select Enable In Layout View, Enable In Story Editor (InDesign), or Enable In Galley/Story View (InCopy), and then

click OK.

2 Select the text that you want to move or copy.

3 Hold the pointer over the selected text until the drag and drop icon appears, and then drag the text.

As you drag, the selected text remains in place, but a vertical bar indicates where the text will appear when you

release the mouse button. The vertical bar appears in any text frame that you drag the mouse over.

4 Do any of the following:

• To drop the text in a new location, position the vertical bar where you would like the text to appear and release

the mouse button.

• To drop the text in a new frame, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) after you start dragging, and

then release the mouse button before releasing the key.

• To drop the text without formatting, hold down Shift after you start dragging, and then release the mouse button

before releasing the key.

• To copy the text, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) after you start dragging, and then release the

mouse button before releasing the key.

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