# Working with Texts

## Inserting texts into a layout and editing text

Most layouts do not contain text fields except for covers and several design or theme photo books. You can add your own text fields to add captions to images or add a title for a photo book page.

### Inserting a new text box

You can create a new text box by clicking the "New Text" tool in the object toolbar, or you can use the pop-up menu (right click on the workspace).

The new text box appears at the top left on the current page by default.
The text box originally contains a default text "- Your text -".
The text does not appear in the finished photo product if the text box stays empty and you do not add your own text.

### Text selection features

The text box and text are completely different elements, just like images and layout frames.
While the text box is also a layout frame and has an editing frame, the content of the text box (the text itself) has to be selected and edited differently.

If you need to edit the text box itself, for example if you want to move it, simply click the text box’s editing frame. No text cursor flashes in the text box!

To edit the text in the text box, click inside the text box. The text cursor (looks like an I-bar) flashes in the text field.

If the I-bar text cursor is flashing in the selected text box, you are editing the text; if not, you are editing the text box itself.

### Editing text boxes

#### Moving a text box

You need to select (activate) the text box, and position the mouse cursor above the editing frame. The mouse cursor becomes a cross with arrow heads.
You can then hold down the left mouse button and move the text box to the position where you want the text to appear; alternatively, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard.

#### Scaling a text box

You can use the handles in the corners to scale the text box while keeping the aspect, or use the handles at the sides to change the width or the height. This does not change the size of the text itself.
To change the text size, format the font size in the text properties.

#### Rotating a text box

You can use the rotation handle, which lies slightly within the frame, to rotate the frame around this handle while holding down the mouse button.
Alternatively, to rotate in 90° steps, select the commands "Rotate frame anti-clockwise" and "Rotate frame clockwise" in the toolbar or the pop-up menu (right mouse button).

#### Deleting a text box

You can delete the active text box either by selecting the text box and clicking "Delete" in the "Edit" toolbar, or pressing the "Del" key on your keyboard.
You need to do this twice.
The first action deletes the text, and the second action deletes the text box.

Entering and editing text is very similar to the corresponding features in any word processor.

#### Entering text

Click on the text box and wait for the text cursor to appear (flashing I-bar); then use your computer keyboard to enter the text.
You can copy text from another source (Word file, web page, etc.) using the operating system’s clipboard function and paste it into the text box.
This action will copy the text formatting in some cases, and the source code (HTML commands) from Internet pages in others. You will need to edit or remove this.
To add more text, place the text cursor at the position where you want to add more text and start typing.
To overwrite or delete text, hold down the mouse button to select the required text passage, and type over the selected text, or press the "Del" key on your keyboard to delete.
You can select all the content in a text field by pressing the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl" + "a".

#### Formatting text

#### The "Text" toolbar

##### "New text" button

Creates a text box in a layout which you can fill with your own text and edit to your taste.

The new text box appears by default at the top left of the page.
You only have to move it to the right position.
At the beginning the default text is "- Your text -".

##### Font selection box

A list of the fonts installed on your computer is available in the toolbar. The font names and samples are displayed.

##### Buttons
"Bold"
"Italics"
"Underlined"

For the so-called font style (bold, italics) and for underlining the selected text.

##### "Set text colour"

For setting the colour of the selected text.

##### "Set text box background colour"

Applies the selected colour to the background of the text box.

##### Font size selection box

A list in the toolbar with the available font sizes. You can also enter a number for the font size in the box.

In the pop-up menu:

##### "Align text left"
"Centre text"
"Align text right"
"Justify text"

Paragraph formats for aligning the text within a text box. They apply to the whole of the selected text box.

If you want to format individual paragraphs within a text box, then use the "More text options ..." commands in the pop-up menu of the selected text box.

##### "Change several text boxes"

The "Text settings" dialog box opens.
Here you can set all the available general properties of a text box, e.g. font type and colours, and also the distance between the text and text frame (indent) and coloured letter edges which you otherwise cannot access.

To this purpose click the checkbox in front of the text property which you want to change.

Caution: These settings affect all parts of a text box. If you change the font size and if you have formatted one paragraph as a heading with a larger font in one or more text boxes, this formatting is overwritten.

You can apply the changes to the text settings with checkboxes only to the selected text box (or the selected text boxes), to all texts in the CEWE PHOTO BOOK and as a default setting for newly created text boxes.

#### Changing the text formatting Text format changes only affect any new text you enter to the right of the text cursor, or to the currently selected text. You have to select text if you subsequently want to format it. Select text by holding down the left mouse button and moving over the text, or by placing the text cursor at the beginning of the text you want to format and then clicking at the end of the text you wish to format while holding down the Shift key. You can select a single word by double-clicking the word. You can select all the content in a text field by pressing the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl" + "a". Then click the format command.

### Spellchecker

You can enable and disable the automatic spellchecker in the options.

When the spellchecker is enabled, any words you may have spelled incorrectly are underlined in red. The red underlining is not printed.

Right clicking the underlined word opens a pop-up menu with a list of suggested spellings. You can click a suggestion to insert it into the text to replace the word underlined in red.

If you are sure you have type the word correctly, but it is still marked as an error, it may simply be missing from the spellchecker dictionary.

You can use the pop-up menu to add the word to the dictionary, or ignore the word, which means the word will not be marked as a spelling error in future.