User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To select all text objects:
1. Select the Text tool from the Toolbox.
2. Choose Edit | Select All.
Illustration: This procedure selects all text objects on the current layer.
Publication: This procedure selects all text objects on the current page or current two-
page spread.
Animation: This procedure selects all text objects on the current layer of the current
frame.
Presentation: This procedure selects all text objects on the current layer of the current
slide.
To select text within a text object:
Before you can select specific characters, words, lines, or paragraphs, the text object must be in edit
mode.
1. To place an object in edit mode, use one of these methods:
With a Selection tool, double-click the text object. The pointer becomes an I-beam and an
insertion point appears in the text.
Select the Text tool. The pointer becomes an I-beam. Click the I-beam within the text. An
insertion point appears.
For bound text only, click the Path Text tool. The Path Text tool is in the Text tools palette
(see "Tool palettes" on page 23).
2. Use one of the following methods to highlight the text you want to select.
To Do this
Select a continuous
block of text
Drag the I-beam over text.
Select all text between
the insertion point and
another location
Press the Shift key and click where you want the selection to end.
Deselect text between
the insertion point and
another location within
the selection
Press the Shift key and click within the highlighted text.
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