Text is the natural adjunct to page layout, and InDesign CS6 offers numerous improvements. The Font menus now group your most recently used fonts at the top, sorted either alphabetically or by recent use. Paragraphs that split or span columns can now have their “Keep” options set, to ensure that all paragraphs that need to stay together will do so.

When adding or removing text from a text frame, auto-size options now let you determine whether the text frame will get taller, wider, or both, and in which directions.

The open-source Hunspell dictionaries are now used by default, and you can choose any of more than 100 dictionaries to install.

When you link a Child text frame to a Parent text frame, you can map styles so that the Child text can have a different appearance from the Parent.