Tutorial
Add Text to the Left Master Page

You can only work with master page elements on master pages. Even though they can appear on the other pages in your documents, you can not select them, change them, or alter their contents on those pages. You can only choose whether you want to include them on a particular page. This ensures that repeating elements are not accidentally altered on only some of your pages.

  1. Click the icon for the left master page in the page scroll bar. The left master page becomes the current page in the document window again. The other part of the repeating element for the verso pages in this bulletin is the name of the museum and the season and year.

  2. Select the text block tool in the tool bar. You created a text block and selected an insertion point in two steps when you added the introductory text to the front page. Now you'll learn a shortcut.

  3. Hold down the Command key while you drag from within the top left grid rectangle to within the top right grid rectangle on the page. A text block snaps to the grid. Because you held down the Command key while you drew it, the I-beam pointer becomes selected in the Tools palette and an insertion point is selected in the text block.

  4. Press Command-4 to switch to Actual Size view. The page appears at actual size in the window, with the insertion point centered in the window.

  5. Type "Museum of Southwestern Crafts · Summer 1990." You type the bullet-the small, black circle between "Crafts" and "Summer"-by holding down the Option key while you type 8. The text appears in Sahafi's preset formats, except that if you haven't quit Sahafi since you last formatted text, the last font you specified is chosen automatically.