When InDesign first came out I loved to show how a frame was a frame...no more Graphic Frame and Text Frame like in the Quark XPress days. I would draw a frame and simply click in it with the Type Tool and begin typing. Wonderful.

Well, the romance ends when you DON'T want it to happen. If you created a frame that was intended as a background element, like a colored box of some sort and accidentally clicked on it with the Type Tool you would find things got really annoying really quickly. From that point on, you couldn't click and drag to create a Text Frame, nor could you draw a regular frame and click in it with the Type Tool to change it.

So you would move into MacGyver mode and you would put the background on a separate Layer and lock it. Or, if you're paid by the hour you would just continually go to Object> Content and choose Graphic or Unnassigned.

No longer...now you have a selection on the Type Panel of the Preferences that allows you to choose whether you want to allow the Type Tool to convert Frames to Text Frames. Your choice. A very welcome improvement to many of us.

To be honest, however, I haven't, yet, decided how I'm going to set mine.

Watch the video to see it in action.

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