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Setting Up The Page in Adobe InDesign CS

From Elisabetta Bruno, for About.com

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Master Text Frame

All objects placed on the page or the pasteboard in a desktop publishing software application have a sometimes invisible bounding box or frame around the object - frames designed to hold text are called text frames

So let's get back to our New Document window. If you check the Master Text Frame option, you will have a text frame (or text box) on your master page. This frame will have the column and margin attributes specified in the New Document window.

For more on text frames, see What is a text frame and how is it used in desktop publishing software?

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