Does Indesign have a text line tool?

I am thinking of moving to Indesign from quark, and I have been trying to find the equivalent to quarks text line tool, is this available?
Thx
Brad

Hi Rodney
Thankyou for your promt reply, I have since found the line tool and with the type in a path tool it seemed to work OK, the only difference I found was you cannot grab the handles on the line path and control it's length or angles after the fact? I had to use the propery manager.
Thank you again for your time
Brad

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