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Using anchored objects

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Using anchored objects

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- [Instructor] This photo here has been placed on my page and given a text wrap so that the text flows right past it. And this layout looks pretty good right now. Let's zoom in by pressing Command or Control+Plus a couple of times, and this is great but what if we need to edit the text? The graphic and the text need to stay together but if I come over here and grab my type tool and then select some of this text and delete it, well, now we've got problems. The text moved but the graphic didn't. So how can we tell the picture to move along with the text? To do that, we need to make it an inline or anchored object. So first I'm going to undo that to get our text back. Now we are going to turn this object, this graphic, into an inline object. To do that, I'm going to select it with the selection tool and cut it to my clipboard with a Command+X or Control+X on Windows. Next, I'm going to add a new blank line to put that graphic on.…

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