InDesign Multiple Page Documents

Using InDesign I created an eight page document with image and text. 

The first thing that we did as we were more interested in the layout than content was to look at Lorem Ipsum, a latin text that is used to represent the space of text in a document when designing to give a feel of the layout. To get the text we used the website lipsum.com where you can select the text you want by words, paragraphs, lists etc.

I chose five paragraphs, however that amount of text wouldn't all fit on one page in one text box, so we were shown how to use text linking. 

I added text boxes to all of my pages then pasted the type into the box on the first page. As there was a lot of overflow a red box comes up in the bottom right corner of the text box showing that not all of it is visible. To make the text flow through to the other text boxes you select the black [*****] arrow and click on the box which then shows that it has picked up the text, to move it you just click in the next text box then repeat this till it fills out the boxes.

The text boxes can still be resized and moved and the text will automatically fall down or move up as it's adjusted.

Notes:

Starting a new document, select master text frame - it adds a text box that sits in the margin to each page.

Facing Pages 

It can be used to put together information and send to others exported as a PDF file

Text editing - to make text a bit neater hyphens [-] can be turned off on the top tool bar. 

Type > Tabs, this tool gives you a ruler that you can align along the top of the document and you can place markers along it for text to fit to such as alignments, left, right, centre etc.

Text Wrap

Window > Text Wrap 

If you have an image in the background or you want a shape cut out of the text, you can use the pen tool to draw that shape and apply the text wrap to it. I used an image of a bird in the background below and decided I didn't want the text to cover it so I roughly drew out the shape of it using the pen tool setting the colour fill and line to clear so it wouldn't show on printing then used text wrap to move the text around the lines.

There is also further options where you can adjust the padding, so the text will sit further away from the line or shape that you create.

Also with some images you can use detect edges so if you added a photo to the document you could use the tool to find the edges it's self and fit around it.