Operation Manual

92 Working with Text
2. Choose Text File... from the Insert menu.
3. From the Open dialog, locate and select the file to import.
4. Check the Retain Format box to retain the source file's formatting
styles. Uncheck the box to discard this information. In either case,
PagePlus will preserve basic character properties like italic, bold, and
underline, and paragraph properties like alignment (left, center, right).
5. Check the Ignore line wrapping box to ignore returns in the source
text—that is, only if the file has been saved with a carriage return at
the end of every line, and you want to strip off these extra returns.
Otherwise, leave the box unchecked.
6. Click Open.
7. The text will be imported into the pre-selected text object or a new
text frame. If all of the imported text cannot fit into the active text
frame you'll be prompted via dialog. You can either create extra
frames to accommodate overflow text (click Yes) or just overflow the
text into a hidden overflow area (click No).
Understanding text frames
Typically, text in PagePlus goes into text frames, which work equally well as
containers for single words, standalone paragraphs, or multipage articles or
chapter text. You can also use artistic text (see p. 103) for standalone text with
special effects, or table text (see Creating text-based tables on p. 136) for row-
and-column displays.
What's a text frame?
A text frame is effectively a mini-page, with:
• Margins and column guides to control text flow.
• Optional preceding and following frames.
• Text and optional inline images that flow through the frames.
The text in a frame is called a story.