Drag Scale Type ala Illustrator

Scaling type hor­i­zon­tal­ly with the appro­pri­ate field on the Character or Control palettes is easy and pre­cise, but not nec­es­sar­i­ly ide­al when try­ing to scale to fit a par­tic­u­lar space or when a more visu­al scal­ing is desired. Wouldn’t it be great if you could scale text width in InDesign just by dragging–like Illustrator can with point type?

You can.

Select the text frame and drag the con­trol point on either the left or right side while hold­ing CMD/CTRL. Drag inward, toward the text, to scale the type thin­ner, or out­ward to scale up to thick­er type.

Want to scale ver­ti­cal­ly? Use the same pro­ce­dure, but instead of drag­ging a con­trol point on the sides, drag from either the top- or bottom-center points while hold­ing CMD/CTRL.