Hello Matthew, Once the placeholder text is highlighted, you just start typing and it's replaced with your own text.
Cheers, Anne On 12 Oct 2011, at 21:31, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Great! So when you want to type over this text, do you mouse click with VO to > do so or just start typing? > Thanks. > I'd like to become an iWork convert but have been able to get by with > TextEdit. > > On 2011-10-12, at 3:16 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Matthiew, >> >> Placeholder text is text that disappears as soon as you start typing over >> it. It's used to show the layout of a document. >> >> When creating templates, I make all replaceable text, placeholder text, but >> I enter it in the format that should be used. So, for instance, in a >> template for an APA-style document, I give examples of the various formats >> for references, and the user can navigate into this text which is then >> highlighted, and copy it into another document where it can be referred to. >> >> The creators of the included templates put fake Latin as placeholder text. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 12 Oct 2011, at 20:42, Matthew Campbell wrote: >> >>> Hello Anne. >>> What do you mean by "place holder text?" >>> Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
