User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Displaying column guides
You can display or hide all the section column guides in a document.
To show column guides:
Choose Layout | Display | Show Guides when column guides are not displayed.
To hide column guides:
Choose Layout | Display | Hide Guides when column guides are displayed.
Typing text in a section
Use the Text tool to type text in a column in a section.
To type text in a section:
1. Select the Text tool and click at the top of the first column in the section. An insertion point
appears in the column at the height where you clicked. Canvas creates linked text objects in
the section when you click in the section with the Text tool.
2. Begin typing. Text will wrap to the next line when it reaches the column edge. If you continue
typing to the end of the column, text will flow to the next column in the section.
If a section has multiple columns, you can skip one or more columns by clicking in the section where
you want the text flow to begin.
Flowing overset text into new text columns
You can flow text when all the text won’t fit in a text object. An indicator tells you when an object has
overset text. If you select a text object and drag a handle to reduce its size so all the text does not fit,
the overset indicator appears. You can flow text between as many columns as you want.
To flow text into the next column:
1. Click the flow symbol to change the pointer to a text flow pointer.
2. Click or drag the pointer to create a new column for the overset text.
To flow text into a column with the same margins as the original column:
Click the text flow pointer where you want the upper-left corner of the new column to appear.
To flow text into a column with different margins than the original column:
Drag the text flow pointer to specify the column width.
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