The one with the x is a frame tool and it basically says, at some point you're going to add an image inside this. The only difference being there's an x in one and the other one's solid. And if I click and hold I can see that I also have an Ellipse and a Polygon underneath that. I'm gonna pull the type, I'm sorry, the toolbox off. I also have two other sorts of graphics frames and they live over here. But I want to make sure that every time I fill a text frame it looks kind of similar. And again, we're gonna do text later in this particular course. So now, when I select a text frame and I use my keyboard shortcut F to fill that, it automatically fills it with that size font. So in this case, all I'm going to do is just change the size. So what I'm doing by making this, setting this default is telling it all new text frames automatically have whatever characteristics I enter right now. So I'm gonna chose the Type Tool but I don't have any text frame selected. And I want to tell it, whenever I create a new text frame in this document what I want that text to look like. So I'm gonna select it with the Selection Tool and delete. One thing I do want to do though is I want to tell it what the text looks like when I fill that frame. But you can actually change it and have different text as well. And it's going to use the default text that's built into InDesign unless you've updated it. And now, it's going to go ahead and fill in that text that's there. But I'm going to use fill with placeholder text because we setup a keyboard shortcut for that. I can place text from somewhere else inside that existing frame. So, in that case I've got a couple different options. I can double-click on that and I get back to my cursor. So we're not going to work with those but I just wanted to show you that that's how you can visually identify a text frame. We're going to keep single stories that live by themselves in frames. We're going to keep them very simple in this course. And that's something we can do, is we can take text frames and link them together. It means text flows in, in the upper left and flows out in the lower right. But I can see that that's a text frame from this upper left and the lower right. And that just tells you that you can check into more type options that way. And if you have one of the newer versions of InDesign you may or may not have this turned on. And then in the lower right I've got the same thing. One is that not only do I have these corners marked, but I have this larger box on the upper left here. And I can tell it's a text frame for a couple different reasons. Again, because I'm working with the frame itself, and select any frame that I see on my page. So, if I don't have my type cursor sitting in there and it's flashing I can go back to the selection tool. But what happens is, sometimes we draw frames and then we lose track of what it is we drew them for and we need to be able to visually identify the different types of frames. Now, I have my flashing cursor, so I'm pretty sure that's a text frame. I'm gonna do that again in case we missed that. All right, so I've created this text frame. All right, well we're going to leave those on I guess. My Smart Dimensions are off, but it's showing that. And I thought I turned off those Smart Dimensions. So I've chosen the Type Tool and I'm just gonna click and drag. But in this case, we're going to create a frame to start with and then we're going to put text in it. When you bring it in and place it, it automatically takes that text, creates the frame and fills it with the text you're bringing in. And we're going to do that at the end of this course. So if you had a text frame or a text file from somewhere else and you're going to bring that in. M somewhere else InDesign is smart enough to create that frame for you. And that's the nice thing about InDesign is that you do have to have these containers but a lot of times you're bringing things in from somewhere else and as you place that fro. If you're importing text you can do this on the fly. And this is for when I'm putting text in or I'm putting the frame first and I'm going to put the text in later. And again, I'm just gonna choose it in the type panel. So the first thing I want to do is create a frame where my text can live. I'm gonna select that guide and just get rid of it. We can't just put things on the page without some sort of container for it. So like I said, everything has to live in a frame of some kind. The first thing I want to create is a text frame. We've got these that we stole from another document, but let's actually create some from scratch. All right, so let's actually put some frames on the page.

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