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Text in a column
If you are entering larger amounts of text, over multiple lines, using a column is more
useful. Changing the width of the column will automatically re-flow the text.
To type a column of text:
1. Select the TEXT TOOL.
2. Move the mouse pointer where you want the column to start.
3. Drag right to create a horizontal line the width of the column. This red line just
shows you the width of the column. It is never exported or printed.
4. Type in the text. You don't need to press "Enter" at the end of a line. When the
text reaches the edge of the column, it automatically flows onto a new line.
NOTE: If you click away or change tools before you start typing, the text column will
be removed and nothing left on the page. Therefore always start typing after you’ve
dragged the column width line.
Instead of typing in the text you can create the text in a separate text editor or word
processor, copy it to the clipboard and paste it into MAGIX Page & Layout Designer
2013. Copy and paste supports RTF-formatted text.
Words only split across lines if they contain a hyphen character (minus key)
The effect of typing a hyphen into "running"
If you type "Ctrl + -" (minus key) it inserts a soft hyphen which is a hyphen that only
appears if the word can wrap at the end of a line. This is particularly useful for narrow
columns of text, to avoid rivers of white, you might need to hyphenate some words.
Inserting a normal dash character will split the word at the end of the line. It's called a
'soft' hyphen because when the word appears in the middle of a line the hyphen
vanishes (unlike a normal dash or minus character), so it intelligently hyphenates the
words only if it needs to.
When editing the text a soft hyphen is treated as an invisible character (it takes no
space), but you can tell it's in the text by moving the cursor left/right over where the
invisible character is.
A hard hyphen can be inserted by typing "Ctrl + Shift + -" (minus key). A hard hyphen
is one that will not cause a wrap at all. This is useful in situations where you have
dashes in words that you do not want split at the end of lines.