Manipulating frames

Practice doing these tasks until you feel comfortable and know what to expect when you do it. All of the steps below require a text frame on the page.

Task 9 Rotate a text frame

1 Get the black Selection tool.

2 Select the frame or frames you want to rotate.

3 Position the tip of the pointer near any corner point and watch for it to become a curved arrow. Press and drag.

You can also enter a value into the Transform panel, in the “Rotation Angle” field. This makes it easy to match angles of different frames.

Task 10 Resize the text and the frame

Try this on a headline in its own frame and also on a paragraph of text.

1 Get the black Selection tool.

2 Single-click on the frame you want to resize (this selects it, of course).