Tutorial
Type an Introduction to the Bulletin

To enter text in a text block, you need to select an insertion point. You do that with the I-beam pointer.

  1. Click the l-beam pointer in the Tools palette to select it.

  2. Click In the text block. An insertion point appears in the top-left corner of text block. It looks like a blinking vertical bar. The insertion point is where text you type, paste, or import is inserted in a text block. Notice that Times 12.00/12.00 Plain appears in the status bar. That tells you that text you type at the insertion point will appear in 12-point Times, on 12-point leading, in plain text (not bold or italic).

  3. Choose Views from the Document menu and then choose Actual Size from the submenu that appears. The current page is displayed at actual size in the document window, and the page automatically scrolls so the insertion point appears in the center of the window.

  4. Type "This Summer:" and press Return. The characters you type appear in the text block.

  5. Type "Our first exhibition of kachinas and baskets from the Eleanora Corelli collection of Hopi crafts". Kachinas are Hopi Indian deities. The Hopi carve dolls representing kachinas for their children. You'll work with a photograph of a kachina later in this tutorial. But first you'll learn one way to specify type.