So, what we are going to do now is create a couple of elements on our left-hand page. Now one of them will be a text frame and another one will be just a standard frame filled with color. So there are series of tools that we can use to actually generate all of those.
If we come up here to the Tools Palette, you can see that there is a Standard Type Tool and that's used for generating text frames and then populating those with text, but there are also two Standard Rectangular Tools down here. This is sometimes confusing for people coming to InDesign. The Standard Rectangle Tool over here does simply that, it generates a rectangle.
The Rectangle Frame Tool over here does, well, just the same, it creates another rectangle. But the difference is more visual. If we go ahead and select just the Standard Rectangle Tool and anywhere on the page just click-and-drag and draw a rectangle.
To go ahead and select the Rectangle Frame Tool and do exactly the same, just drag again, you will notice that this one has a cross appearing through the center of it, and this really is for most people coming across some Quark Express, they recognize this as a graphic frame.
Well, the cool thing about InDesign is it doesn't really care which tool you use to generate any type of frame because you can convert it to a different type if you drew it using the wrong tool. So let's back up a couple of steps, press Command+Z or Ctrl+Z on the PC twice to go back, and let's say we select the Standard Rectangle Frame Tool again, and once again just click-and-drag to draw a shape anyway.
If we decide that at this point that we actually wanted that to be a text frame, we don't have to go back and regenerate it. If we go up to the Object Menu and come down to the Content sub-menu, you can see that this frame is actually called an Unassigned frame, it doesn't have any content at this point in time. But here we could switch it to a regular Text frame and also to a Graphic frame, basically, the one with the cross through the center of it.
So really it doesn't matter which one you use, it's very easy to change it from one to the other.
