Inserting Text

In “Publisher”, we have complete control over how and where we insert text in our publication.

When you use a template you will see that, depending on the type of template, it is already divided into different “Text boxes”.
In this example, I use a newsletter template, but that does not matter.

All these “Text boxes” are already filled with standard text.

When you zoom in on your publication you will see that these “Text boxes” give us information and instructions.
All this text is purely informative, but it can still be useful.

To change this text, you need to click on this once.
This will select all text in the “Text box”, the only thing you have to do is type, or paste, if you have copied text from another application, such as, “Word”.
And when you’re done typing, click on a place outside the “Text box”.
That’s it!  This can’t get any easier.

As you can see in the image below, you can have a “Text box” with multiple columns.
You can see the columns, when the text is selected, in the “Text box”.
In the next section of this lesson, I will talk more about inserting “Text boxes”.

Inserting a text box and link

In this example, I use a blank publication, but you may as well add one or more “Text boxes” to a template.
To add a “Text box”, click on the “Text” button in the “Objects toolbar”.
Click and drag to position it in your publication, where you want it inserted.
Release the mouse button when you’ve reached the required size.
The cursor is automatically placed in the box, all you have to do is type.

You can add as many “Text boxes” as required.
You can have a “Text box” that is linked to a previously created “Text box” so that when the first “Text box” is filled, the text extends into the second box.
First create the two “Text boxes”.
There may already be text in the first box, but that does not matter. But the second box MUST be blank if you want to attach it to the first box.

To link the second box to the first, place your cursor in the first “Text box”, and click on the “Create Text Box” button in the standard toolbar.
The mouse pointer changes to a jug.
Move it over the second box and then click.
The second “Text box” is now linked to the first one.

If you have multiple “Text boxes”, then repeat these steps for each “Text box”.

Removing a Link between text boxes

To remove a linked “Text box”, select the “Text box”, click on the “Edit” button in the menu bar and select “Delete Object”.
Whether this “Text box” is the second, third, or fourth in a series, that does not matter.
The text will still move from one box to the next.

Unlink

If you select a “Text box”, and then click on the “Break forward link” button on the “Standard toolbar” any coupling between the various “”Text boxes”” and the selected “Text box” is removed.
For example:
We have links from “Text box” 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 and 5.
Select “Text box” 3 and click on the “Break froward link” button. The links between boxes 3 and 4 and those between boxes 4 and 5, disappear.

By clicking on the “Next text box” and “Previous text box” buttons, we can navigate between the different “Text boxes”.

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