Anatomy of an InDesign document

Pages in a document

InDesign calls whatever you create, no matter the number of pages, a Document.

Documents contain Pages.

The following items are placed on pages:

• Frames – which contain either text or graphics
• Shapes – which do not contain any thing else

Both frames and shapes can be filled with colour, and/or stroked (which means outlined).   Frames can contain Text and/or Images

Examples of frames and shapes

Finally: 

• text can be formatted 
• images can be resized and moved around in the frame.

Unformatted vs formatted text

An image moved around inside a frame