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230 Text Handling

Page breaks
Insert a page break into a text area by using the the TEXT TOOL to right-click at the point
in the text where you want the break to occur. Then select "INSERT" > "BREAK" > "MOVE TO
NEXT PAGE". Or use the shortcut (Ctrl+Enter).

All the text after the page break now appears in the first linked text area on the next
page.

Resizing text areas
Using the TEXT TOOL, you can click and drag on any of the corner control handles. The
text in the area will be reformatted to fit the new size. If you resize a text area using the
SELECTOR TOOL, using the corner control handles, the text itself is scaled as well, but use
any of the other control handles and the text area size is changed and the text reflows in
it to fit the new size.
You can also change the size of the text in the text area, by going into the TEXT TOOL,
select all the text with Ctrl+A and change the font size on the TEXT TOOL InfoBar.

You can rotate a text area, using the SELECTOR TOOL as normal, and the text will flow
through the rotated text area normally.

Text flow is unaffected if you rotate any of the text areas

Hold down "Ctrl" while rotating to constrain the text rotation angle to 90° angles and
screen aligned angles.

Word count
The word and character count total of the current text is shown in the status line. This
also shows the number of overflowing words. If any region of text is selected, it shows
the count of this selection instead.