User Guide

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ADOBE GOLIVE CS2
User Guide
Adding a component to a page
To crop text in a component
You can crop text in components you’ve added to web pages, removing characters, words, or paragraphs. If you use
one component on multiple pages, you can crop each instance uniquely, creating text content specific to each page
design.
1 In the Layout Editor, select a component.
2 In the Component Inspector, click the Crop Text button
3 From the Crop Text By menu in the toolbar, select a unit: Characters, Words, Paragraphs, or Custom Breaks.
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Note: To use custom breaks, you must first add <agl:custombreak/> in the source code of the component to specify break
locations.
4 In the Layout Editor, drag to select the text you want to retain, or use the Selection Start and Selection End boxes
in the toolbar to specify the first and last unit retained. (For example, to retain “cat” in “scatter,” specify 2 and 4. If
you’re using custom breaks, enter 1 in the Selection Start box to retain the text from the beginning of the text string
to the first custom break.)
5 In the toolbar, click the Accept Crop button . (Or, to cancel the crop without applying it, click the Cancel
button
.)
To edit the component’s source file
1 Double-click the component on the page to open the source file.
2 Make the desired changes and save the source file.
3 Click OK to update all pages that use the component.
To detach a component from its source file
• To detach one component, select the component on the page, choose Special > Component > Detach Selected
Component, and then click OK.
• To detach all components on a page, choose Special > Component > Detach All Components, and then click OK.
The detached component becomes part of the page and does not have a dependent link to the source file. Changing
the source file no longer affects the detached component in the page.