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Chapter 5 Working with Text 71
You select the placeholder text, and then type your own text to replace it. The text you
type keeps the same style and formatting as the placeholder text. If you don’t want to
use the style and size of fonts the placeholder text uses, you can change the selected
text by clicking the font family and font size controls in the Format Bar.
Placeholders in 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.
Placeholders in Text Boxes
Some placeholder text is contained in text boxes 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 turn layout view on, Click View in the toolbar and
choose Show Layout.
To select the placeholder text inside a text box:
m Click once to select the text box, and then click to select the text inside the box.
Text box placeholder text is part of the template’s default design. To preserve the
design, be careful not to press Delete after you select the text box or you’ll remove the
text box from the page. If you accidentally delete a text box, press Command-Z (the
shortcut for undo).
Placeholder text
The entire text area is
selected when you click.