Adding and Removing Text

In Swift Publisher, text resides inside text boxes. Adding text requires to add a text box and type or paste text in it.

Adding an Empty Text Box

Menu:
Insert > Text Box

Toolbar:

1. Click the Text Box toolbar button (with "T" icon) to activate the text tool.
2. Place the mouse pointer where a new text box should be located on the page.
3. Press the mouse button to define a text box corner.
4. Move the mouse and release the button to define the opposite corner of the box.

To add a page-width text box:

1. Click the Text Box button in the toolbar.
2. Make an Option-click on the page to locate the top of a new text box.
   The sides and bottom of the text box will coincide left, right and bottom page margins. So, the text box will take all the space inside page margins that lays below the point you have clicked.

Right after adding, the text box stays in the edit mode so that you can type or paste text.

Creating a New Text Box and Inserting Text from the Clipboard in It

Menu:
Edit > Paste (Cmd-V)
or
Edit > Paste with Styles (Cmd-Shift-V)

Context menu:
Make Ctrl-click (right button click) on the page and choose Paste or Paste with Styles.

Unlike the Paste command, Paste with Styles preserves the original text formatting.

Adding Linked Text Boxes (Making Columns)

Text in linked text boxed can recompose moving from one linked box to another when you add/remove text or resize its box. Linked text boxes are usually used to split text into columns.

The first text box of the chain of linked ones is added as usual (see above).
To add the second and following boxes:

1. Select a text box to which you want to link a new one.
2. Click white square on the left side of the selection frame of the text box.
3. Draw a text box outline (see steps 2-4 of adding a box with the toolbar).

For more detail, see Linked Text Boxes and Flowing Text.

Adding Multiple Text Boxes

Sometimes, it is better to add all text boxes in the page layout and then fill them with text. To add multiple text boxes in one go, double-click the Text Box toolbar button. Then add boxes as described above. The text tool will stay active until you select another tool in the toolbar.

You can also use multi-column text in Swift Publisher. The first column is added as described above. Other columns will be linked to it, so the text can flow between them. On how to add them, see the Linked Text Boxes and Flowing Text section.

Removing a Text Box

To remove a text box, select it and press the Delete key on the keyboard.
An alternative way is using the Delete command from the Edit menu or from the context menu.