


This copy is used as an example of text which will fill this area and should be able to give you a suitable word count. Replace this placeholder text with real text and tag the replacement text with such and such paragraph style.

Replace this text with real text and tag the replacement text with such and such paragraph style. Placeholder text with real text and tag the replacement text with such and such paragraph style. I tend to use placeholder text in my master pages, so the last thing I want is the spell check leaping up to the master pages every time I need to proof text in my document. I’ve always changed my placeholder text but I use text that will not be picked up by the spell check. If you ever want the default Lorem Ipsum stuff back, move the placeholder.txt file out of your InDesign application folder (or leave it in there and just change its name). In the Export dialog box, choose Format: Text Only, with Default Platform encoding, and save the file as placeholder.txt in your InDesign application folder. Then with your cursor in the text frame, choose File > Export. Copy the text from your browser and paste it into InDesign. If you’re using the text from these sites, you may need to perform an extra step to preserve the paragraph returns. Moby Dick is my go-to text, but you can just as easily get your hands on Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, Ulysses, the works of Shakespeare, etc. Or you can head to Project Gutenberg and grab the text from over 50,000 public domain books. But what if you don’t have some supercool custom placeholder text handy? No problem, just head over to Choose Your Ipsum and select from an assortment of 75 ipsums including Batman ipsum, cat ipsum, coffee ipsum, Star Trek ipsum…the list goes on and on.
