![]() ![]() So I'll choose the selection tool and then I'll hold down the Option, or Alt key, and I'll drag this object down. But before I do that, I'm going to make a copy of this object, you know just in case I mess something up. ![]() I'm going to go to the next page in my document and I want to interlock these two O's. The duplicate that I pasted into the frame, covers up the pink object and the result is that it appears that the objects are intertwined. When you use Past Into, and the frame that your pasting into is in the same area as the object that you copied, it pastes it with the exact same location. Finally I'm going to go the Edit menu and I'm going to choose not Paste, but Paste Into. ![]() I simply drag out a rectangle, let go of the mouse button and now I have the frame on the page. Then I'm going to draw out a frame where I want them to intersect. Now you can just press the "f" key on your keyboard but I'm going to select it here in the Tool panel. I'll just press Command-C, or Control-C on Windows. After I select this object, the black one in the background, I copy it to the clipboard. It's all or nothing right? So instead I need to use a trick. I could choose Send to Back or move to front but I cannot say move part of it below the other. Now obviously I could select this object go to the Object menu and then choose from the Arrange sub-menu. I'm going to scroll down in this document so you can see that I have the same objects but this time not intertwined. ![]() And you definitely want to check that out. Mike is the author of another title here on the online training library called InDesign FX. How on Earth can you do that in InDesign? Well, I saw how my friend Mike Rankin did it and it was so easy that I just needed to show you. Like, this part of the pink object is above that one, but it's below that one. This effect where it appears that the two objects are intertwined always confounded me. ![]()
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