InDesign – How to Insert Text

To type text into your document, you must first create a text frame. 

Click the text tool in the toolbar on the left edge of the screen.   Then click and drag in your document to draw the text frame.

Once you have drawn the frame, just click inside to type.

To make changes to the text, highlight it first. You can access the text tools by clicking on the button with the letter “A” in it, at the left edge of the top toolbar. This will give you a number of text options, such as changing the font type, size, and colour.

To make changes to the text at the paragraph level (things like indenting and centring), highlight the text and click the paragraph symbol at the left edge of the top toolbar.