Among other benefits of working with a story as opposed to disjointed frames of text, you can select all the text in a story for formatting and limit the use of Find/Change to the text in a story. If you flow the text through threaded frames, it remains as a single body of text called a story. The text in these frames needs to be selected and formatted individually.
Inexperienced users are often tempted to place or paste text into separate, freestanding text frames. Using multiple objects creates extra work when moving and aligning objects or changing the formatting. An inexperienced InDesign user might be tempted to create this look by layering multiple frames. For example, the three text frames containing the postcard’s body text have a text inset, stroke weight, stroke color, and drop shadow applied. Format one object rather than layering objects. For example, if the document is missing a font, you will need to acquire that font right away before you continue working on the document.
As soon as you receive a document to work on, use the Live Preflight feature to make sure the document will output correctly. When you create a document following best practices, the document is easy to format, revise, and replicate consistently. While completing the postcard in this lesson, you experimented with the basic building blocks of a document and the best practices for creating a document.
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