On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:15 am, Magic Page wrote: > Wayne Maeda wrote: > > On Friday 09 January 2004 10:37 pm, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >>Wayne Maeda wrote: > >>>How does one select text in small (one or two words) text frames? > > > > I forgot to mention that I'm dealing with text frames that have been > > rotated 90 degrees. The normal text editing rules don't work as well in > > this state. > > > > Wayne > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wayne, > Don't know why I didn't remember this as well about selecting text in a > small text frame. I was complaining about it one night while talking > with Peter on the IRC. It was so simple, but it's those simple things > that throw us the big curves! ;o) > > Open your Properties window. In your Properties window, after selecting > X,Y,Z, you will notice a little icon in the lower right of the > properties window that looks like an open lock. After selecting your > text frame, click on the lock to make it appear as a closed lock. This > will lock the text frame, so that no modifications can occur to it. At > that point, selecting text, no matter what the rotation will be simple!
Patrick, That's fine if you only have a few frames to deal with. I have around 200 of them. Wayne
