User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To enter edit mode using the Selection tool:
With the Selection tool, double-click a text object. If you double-click on a word, the word
becomes selected and is highlighted. The Text tool is selected, and you can begin typing or
editing.
To edit text bound to a path:
With the Path Text tool or the Text tool, click the text. An insertion point appears in the bound text,
and you can begin typing or editing.
To leave text edit mode:
Press Esc when you finish text editing. Canvas switches to the Selection tool from the Text tool.
The text object you were editing is selected.
Text selection and navigation
Move the insertion point and select characters, words, lines, and paragraphs using the mouse or
keyboard.
The mouse lets you quickly select text or text objects and move the insertion point. However, if you
work with a lot of text, you might find that the keyboard techniques let you move the insertion point
more precisely to edit more quickly.
Making text selections
Before you can cut, copy, move, delete, type over, or perform other operations on text characters,
you need to select the text within a text object. You can select text when a text object is in edit mode.
The phrases “selected text,” “text selection,” and “highlighted text” all refer to an active selection of
characters within a text object. Selected text appears highlighted; the highlight color depends on
your system’s color settings.
Keep in mind that a text selection is not the same as a selected text object. When you select a text
object, you can move, copy, delete, and perform other operations on the entire object. When you
make a text selection, the editing actions will affect only the highlighted characters within the object.
To deselect all highlighted text:
Click anywhere in the text object or layout. Clicking outside the selected text object creates
another text object at that location.
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