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InDesign How-to Video: How to Create an Angled Text Header

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In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner shows how to put text at an angle to use as a header for a table (or any use, really). He explains that by using the two different selection tools you can manipulate the points of a text frame, or the frame as a whole.

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  • Melise Gerber says:

    This is a GREAT tutorial. I would hate to show you some of the files when I have tried creating this type of effect without knowing this trick.

  • Kate Brown says:

    great video but I cannot get this to work, i’ve followed it to the letter, and it won’t even skew the points… :( it’s always straight

    • Kate Brown says:

      Sorted it, not sure why but I had to skew the frame then had to un-skew the text but applying the angle Skew value to the text as I had to the frame, and that worked…

  • Steve Burrell says:

    I think what he’s using here is a simple text box with Paragraph Rules used to mimic a table. Once I tried that, his instructions worked.

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