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5. Adding and Formatting Text

All text must be in a text box. The built-in templates contain text boxes with placeholder text (Lorem ipsum... or Untitled) that you type or paste over to replace. New pages are added automatically to accommodate an overflow of text in the main text box, which contains the document’s overall text flow. You can also add custom text boxes—such as banners, sidebars, or callouts—that aren’t part of the main text flow. Custom text boxes are discrete objects; you can’t link them to flow text to one another or to the main text flow.

To add a text box, click Text Box in the toolbar. A selected text box appears on the page (Figure 5.1). Drag the box to reposition it, use its selection handles to resize it, or type or paste ...