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Adding Text to Placeholder Text Areas
Templates contain placeholder text, which shows you what text will look like and
where it will be placed in the finished document. Placeholder text can be Latin text in
the document body, text boxes, headers, and elsewhere, or other predefined text,
such as Education Newsletter.
Main Text Areas
When you click placeholder text in a document template, the entire text area is
highlighted.
When you type, the placeholder text disappears and is replaced by whatever text you
are typing. The text you type behaves like regular text.
Text Boxes
Some placeholder text is contained in text boxes or table cells to preserve formatting.
When you click placeholder text that’s in a text box, a rectangular, gray border
appears around it when layout view is turned on.
To select the placeholder text inside a text box:
m Click once to select the text box, and then double-click to select the text inside the
box.
Placeholder text:
The entire text area is
selected when you click.