![]() ![]() On the next line, type “New Subscriber” and “Renewal.” (Now that you got the hang of tabs, you’ll probably want to create tabs for these two words to give you room for the radio buttons.) Use the Ellipse tool (L) while holding the Shift key to create circles in front of each word. In order to get back to one long leader tab, remove the extra tabs from only that line by simply dragging them off the Tabs ruler. Don’t forget to add the underscores for the leader tabs. Set the “City” leader tab at 2″ set the tab for “ST” at 2.15″ and its leader tab at 2.75″ and set the tab for “Zip” at 2.85″ and use the existing leader tab at 3.75″. Use Left-Justified Tabs (the first icon) for the field names and Right-Justified Tabs for the leader lines. The next line gets a little more complicated because we need to set both tabs and leader tabs for multiple fields. Key in the word “Address” and press the Tab key to create the underline. Hit Return (PC: Enter) twice to skip a line. You should see an underline from the word “Name” to your tab stop. Now click back into your text frame after the word “Name” and press the Tab key on your keyboard. So with the tab you just placed still selected, click in the Leader field on the Tabs ruler and key in an underscore character (Shift-Hyphen). ![]() Now that you’ve inserted your tab, the next thing you have to do is give it a leader of an underscore character (_). ![]() Don’t worry if you don’t click in the exact correct position because you can move the tab afterwards. ![]() Select a Right-Justified Tab (the third icon from the left) in the Tabs ruler and click just above the ruler at the 3.75″ mark. Since the Name field is going to take up the entire top line, we’re going to set our tab at the far right. By default the Tabs ruler magnetically sticks to the top of your text frame. Bring up your Tabs ruler by choosing Tabs from the Type menu. That’s why were going to use leader tabs instead. You could create the rest of your fields and then start drawing the lines where people will fill in their information however, if you ever need to make changes such as font and font size, then you’ll have to move your lines too. You’ll be tempted to jump ahead and start creating all the other fields and I commend you for your eagerness, but you might want to read the next step first. For this example, type in the word “Name” in the text frame. To make it exactly 4×3″, select the text frame after you create it and key in those measurements in the Control panel.Īt this point we need to key in the name for our first field. In this example, we’re going to create a magazine subscription card, so create a 4×3″ text frame using the Type tool (T). So let’s learn the right way to build a form in InDesign (with a cameo appearance of Acrobat to make it fillable).Įither create a new InDesign document or open an existing document and navigate to a blank page or blank area of a page so that you can create a text frame. Of course, the minute I go to type in it everything starts to move around. Want to master Microsoft Excel and take your work-from-home job prospects to the next level? Jump-start your career with our Premium A-to-Z Microsoft Excel Training Bundle from the new Gadget Hacks Shop and get lifetime access to more than 40 hours of Basic to Advanced instruction on functions, formula, tools, and more.It kills me when someone sends me a form in Microsoft Word and he or she expects me to fill it out on my computer. Check out this video created by David Blatner now! Use layers in InDesign CS3Ĭlick through to watch this video on You learn how to create layers, put objects on layers, and manage layer options. This video shows you how to use layers in InDesign to organize and control overlapping objects. ![]()
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