Tutorial
Draw Three Text Blocks and Link Them

The feature article for the bulletin in this tutorial flows through three text blocks across the inside spread. You've already created a number of stand-alone text blocks. Now you'll learn how to link text blocks together so that text flows from one to the next automatically. Just as when you added text earlier in this tutorial, you first need to create text blocks to house the article.

  1. Press Command-1 to switch to Size To Fit view.

  2. Select the text tool in the Tools palette.

  3. Without holding down the Command key, draw a text block that starts in the fourth grid rectangle in the fifth row on page 2, and ends in the bottom-right grid rectangle on page 2. The text block snaps to the grid, and since you didn't hold down the Command key when you created it, the text block tool is still selected.

  4. Draw a text block on page 3-this time from bottom to top-that starts in the bottom-left grid rectangle on page 3 and ends in the second grid rectangle in the third row of grids .

  5. Draw a second text block on page 3 that starts in the third grid rectangle in the third row and ends in the fourth grid rectangle in the bottom row. Sahafi makes it easy to link any number of text blocks together. When text blocks are linked in a chain, text that you add to the first one flows automatically into the rest.

  6. Select the linking tool in the Tools palette.

  7. Click once in the text block on page 2, once in the first text block on page 3, and then double-click in the second text block on page 3. The three text blocks are linked together. You double-click in the last one to indicate that it is the last block in the chain.