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                    Using text frames on master pages
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                <div><p>When you start a new document,
you can select the Master Text Frame option so that an empty text
frame is placed on the document’s default master page. This frame
has the column and margin attributes specified in the New Document dialog
box.</p>
<p>Follow these guidelines for using text frames on master pages:</p>
<ul><li><p>Set master text frames when you want each page in your
document to contain a page-sized text frame into which you can flow
or type your text. If your document requires more variation, such
as pages with different numbers of frames or frames of different
lengths, leave the Master Text Frame option deselected.</p>
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<li><p>Whether or not you select the Master Text Frame option, you
can add text frames to a master page to act as placeholders. You
can thread these empty placeholder frames together to establish
a flow.</p>
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<li><p>Flow text into master text frames using the same procedures
you would use with frames created on document pages. </p>
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<li><p>If you need to type text in a master text frame on&#160;a
document page, hold down Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift (Mac&#160;OS)
as you click the text frame on the document page. Then click in
the frame using the Type tool and begin typing.</p>
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<li><p>You can use Smart Text Reflow to add or remove pages automatically
as you type and edit text. By default, when you type text at the
end of a threaded text frame based on a master page, a new page
is added, allowing you to continue typing in the new text frame.
You can edit Smart Text Reflow settings.</p>
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<li><p>If you change the page margins, text frames adjust to the
new margins only if the Enable Layout Adjustment option is selected.</p>
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<li><p>Selecting the Master Text Frame option does not affect whether
new pages are added when you autoflow text.</p>
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<li><p>When you place text into a frame on a document page that
is based on one of several threaded frames on a master page, the
text flows into just the frame you click. That’s because clicking
the icon in the frame overrides only that frame. However, when you
hold down Shift as you click in a frame based on a master page so
that text is auto-flowed, InDesign overrides all the threaded text
frames, flowing text into each and creating new pages as needed.</p>
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<li><p>When text is placed in a master text frame of a master page,
these changes are not reflected in the document page even if the
text in the frame is edited on this page. Changes in fill, stroke,
and stroke weight in the master text frame are reflected in the
document page (when these attributes are not overridden on the document
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