Place text on the page

As you work with your book layout, you can add text and position it on the page. You can make text changes to individual pages in your book, or you can change master pages to create template pages with custom text styles and layouts. When you want to add text to a book page and need another text box, you can add one and position it anywhere on the page.

Master page designs provide text boxes that you can select and enter text in. You can also copy text and paste it into text boxes on your book pages.

Add text to a text box

In the Book Layout Editor, click the Edit Content button, if it’s not already selected.
In the Pages pane, select the page you want to work on.
Select the text box you want to change.
Select any existing text and type or paste the new text.

Add a text box to a page

In the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor, select the page to which you want to add text.
Click the Edit Layout button.
Choose Add Text Box from the Add Box pop-up menu.
A new text box appears on the page.
Drag the text box to the location where you want it to appear.

You can resize a text box by dragging its resize handles.

Arrange text on a page

You can resize and reposition text and metadata boxes on a book page. First click the Edit Layout button; then click boxes to select them. Selected boxes display handles that you drag to resize the boxes. You can also drag the contents of a box to move the box to a new position.

In the Book Layout Editor, click the Edit Layout button, if it’s not already selected.
In the Pages pane, select the page you want to work on.
Select the text box on the page that you want to move or resize.
Drag the box to a new location, or drag a handle on the selected box to change the box’s size.

Change the number of text columns in a text box

You can change a text box on a book page so that it’s formatted to hold from one to four columns of text.

In the Book Layout Editor, click the Edit Layout button, if it’s not already selected.
Select the text box.
Choose Text Box Columns from the Book Action pop-up menu , then choose the number of columns from the submenu.
If necessary, resize the text box to better accommodate the changed column layout of the box.

Remove text or metadata boxes from a page

After creating a book page and applying a master page design, you may want to remove one or more text boxes from the page. You can choose a different master page design that has fewer text boxes, or you can manually select and remove text boxes.

In the Book Layout Editor, click the Edit Layout button.
Select the text or metadata box that you want to remove, then choose Edit > Cut Content (or press Delete).