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• To enter and edit text in a text object:
Use the basic text editing
techniques
available
in all programs,
including
BACKSPACE and DELETE
keys, and Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste from the
Edit menu.
If you cannot see the
textyou entered, dick
on the Optionsmenu;
then be sure that
Draw Outlines Only is
not selected (it is
selected when the
button is darkened).
If you create a text
object without entering
any text, an eropt_t_ext
7object will remain. This _
object becomes invisible
when not selected and
can obscure portions
of..
other objects.
To undo a deletion that
you just did, select Undo
Delete from the Edit
menu. Undo from the
Edit menu only affects
the last action.
• To create
text in different sizes:
Select
the Text tool.
1.
2.
3.
,
5.
Place the crossed
I-beam
pointer
where
you want
to begin
typing.
Hold down
CTRL; then hold
the Select
button
and drag
the on-screen
pointer
diagonally
to create
your text object.
The size of your type will be
the size of the object you
create.
Release
the Select
button.
The blinking
insertion
point
shows the size of
capital
letters.
Begin
typing
If your characters
are too large for the words
to fit in the
object you
defined,
Drawing
extends
the o_'ect depth,
but not its width.
To
resize a text object,
see the procedure
below.
• To move, resize, or delete a text object:
Use the Pointer tool to move, resize, or delete a text object just as you would
any rectangular
object.
• To delete empty text objects:
1. Select
the Pointer
tool.
2.
Click"-6ri the tex-Ubbj_'_Han_dles
appear
around
the object.
OR
.
Hold the Select
button
and drag the on-screen
pointer
to create
a large
rectangle.
Handles
appear
around
all the objects inside
the rectangle.
Press DELETE or BAC KSPACE.
All selected
objects
disappear.
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