User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Defining text flow bars & flow symbols
A text flow bar is a solid line with a flow symbol. Text flow bars appear at the bottom of text objects
when they contain overset text or are part of text flows. The flow symbol indicates the flow condition.
An arrow indicates that a text object contains overset text.
A plus sign indicates that text flows to another text object.
The last object in a text flow does not display a flow bar unless text is overset.
Text object has
overset text
Text flows to another
text object
To display text flow bars:
Choose Layout | Display | Show Text Flow Bars. To hide text flow bars, choose Layout | Display |
Hide Text Flow Bars.
Linking text objects
After you create text objects with the Text tool or Text Object tool, use the Text Link tool to link the
objects and create a text flow. When text you type or insert fills one object, it flows to the next linked
text object. The linked text object can be on another page (in a Publication document) or another
slide (in a Presentation document). You can link columns in a chain to create articles in a multi-page
document such as a newsletter. The Text Link tool is especially useful for creating templates for
publications.
Text objects created with the Text tool expand as needed when text is added. However, if
you use the Text Link tool to link objects created with the Text tool, the objects no longer
expand or contract to hold the text. Instead, they remain a fixed length, the same as objects
created with the Text Object tool.
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