Operation Manual

Text 55
Understanding text frames
Typically, text in PagePlus goes into text frames, which work equally
well as containers for single words, standalone paragraphs, multipage
articles, or chapter text.
You can also use artistic text (see p. 70) for standalone text with
special effects, or table text (on p. 87) for row-and-column displays.
What's a text frame?
A text frame is a container (like a mini-page) in which the main text for
your publication is stored; in PagePlus, the text in the frame is actually
called a story.
The text frame can be sized and positioned in advance of, or after,
adding body text. When you move a text frame, its story text moves
with it. When you resize a text frame, its story text reflows to the new
dimensions.
Perhaps the most important feature of text frames is the ability to flow
text between linked text frames on the same or different pages. See
Fitting text to frames on p. 65.
For now we'll look at a text frame as an object and the frame text
contained within a single frame.