User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Sections make it easy to arrange and modify text in columns. You can place one or more sections on a
page. After you place text in a section, you can change the number or the size of the columns in the
section and Canvas will adjust the text to fit.
To create text columns in a document, you could manually arrange separate text objects; however,
the Section tool and column guides automate text layout. This section describes how to work with the
Section tool and Column Guides to create text layouts.
A 3-column section
Creating columns
Create column layouts with the Section tool or Column Guides command (Layout | Column Guides).
Use the Section tool to place multiple sections at specified locations on one or more pages. Use the
Column Guides command to define sections or change settings for existing sections.
Whether you create or modify sections with the Section tool or Column Guides command, the Column
Guides dialog box is the control center for configuring sections.
When you create a section, the section’s column guides appear on a guide layer in the document. By
default, guide layers are non-printing and have a bright blue override color. Use the Document
Layout palette to change the override color or make a guide layer printable (see "Guide layers" on
page 95).
When you add text to a section, Canvas creates a text object in each column in the section. The text
objects are placed on the current layer.
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