To create an empty text object
1
Select the Text Object tool. When you move into the document
window, the pointer is an I-beam with an arrow.
2
Drag to set the width and length of a rectangular text object.
3
Canvas deselects the Text Object tool and selects the Selection
tool.
4
Double-click in the text object to select the Text tool. The new
text object is in edit mode, with an insertion point at the top of the
column.
You can begin typing in the new text object immediately.
Press Esc to end text editing and select the text object. Press
Enter (Mac) or Esc (Windows) to deselect the text object.
Positioning text objects
You can arrange text objects the same way you arrange other types of
objects. You can drag text objects with the mouse, resize them by
dragging a selection handle, nudge text objects with keyboard
arrow keys, and set coordinates and dimensions in the Object Specs
palette.
Copying and removing text objects
You can use the Copy, Cut, Clear, Paste, Duplicate, and Replicate
commands in the Edit menu to copy and delete text objects. These
commands operate on text objects the same as on vector objects. For
more information on these commands, see Copying, cutting, past-
ing, and deleting objects on page 16.251.
Inserting headers and footers
You can add header and footer text objects using commands in the
Text menu. Headers and footers are special text objects that can con-
tain codes for the current date, current time, and page number, in
addition to text you type. Canvas updates the date, time, and page
number codes each time it redraws the screen.
Canvas inserts headers at the top of the printable area (the top of the
on screen page layout) and footers at the bottom of the printable area.
Both types of objects initially span the width of the page, but you can
resize and move them just like other text objects.
Text Object tool pointer
Drag the Text Object tool to
create an empty text object.