I had designed a spread layout for a newspaper ad with a list of sale items starting on the left-hand page and continuing in a linked text frame on the right-hand page. After uploading the ad, I got a call from the newspaper production department asking if I could change the ad so that the frames were not linked. I said, “Sure, in a minute or two.” And he said, “How?”
The following is the tip I gave him: Select all your text in the linked second frame, copy it (Edit > Copy) and delete it. Your blinking I-beam should now be at the end of your text in the frame on the left-hand page. Click the Outport at the bottom of the this left-hand frame TWICE which will unlink it from the text frame on the right-hand page. Then, still using the Selection tool, double-click on the text frame on the right-hand page and paste (Edit > Paste) your previously copied text. You’re done! Talk about a timesaving tip, I didn’t have re-upload.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
Author: jeff witchel
Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
