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Freeway Reference: Working with Items

To link two or more text boxes

Flow tool

1. Select the Flow tool in the Toolbar or Tools palette.

2. Click on the first box and then on each subsequent box in the

same order that you want text to flow through the text boxes.

After linking your text boxes, a thick red line joining the text boxes

will appear, indicating the links between text boxes. An arrow head shows the direction of text flow. Text placed in the first box will

flow through the linked text boxes until all the text is placed.

Note: Freeway Express does not have a Tools palette.

Showing text links

To see how text flows from box to box, select a text box with either the Flow tool or the Break Flow tool. This will show all the links

for text boxes connected to that box.

Selecting text across linked text boxes

There are several ways of selecting text that flows across linked text boxes:

1. With the Selection tool, click anywhere in the text and then choose Select All from the Edit menu. All text in the linked boxes will

be selected.

2. Place the cursor at the start of the selection, then hold down the Shift key and click where you want the selection to end. All the

text between the two positions will be selected.

3. Click and drag across the text you want to select.

Unlinking text boxes

Break Flow tool

To break the link between two linked text boxes:

1. Select the Break Flow tool.

2. Click one of the linked text boxes to display the links.

3. Click on the red line linking the text boxes.

The box “downstream” (box to which the arrow points) of the

link is removed from the flow of text. Text reflows into the box

that was “upstream” of the removed box. If the upstream box is

an HTML item, it will resize vertically to contain the new text.

If the upstream box is a graphic item it will display an overflow icon in the lower left corner to show that there is more text in the box

than can be displayed.

Adding a text box into an existing chain

To add a new text box into the chain of text boxes:

1. Draw a new box.

2. Using the Flow tool, click on the box you want to come before the new box in the chain.

3. Click on the box you’ve just drawn.

4. Click on the box that will follow it in the chain.

Deleting a text box from the text flow

When you delete a text box from the flow, text reflows into the remaining text boxes. To do this, simply select the box using the

Selection tool, and delete it.

Cutting/copying and pasting a linked box

You can cut or copy a text box from a linked series. Cutting a text box from a linked series is the same as deleting it—the text is not

removed from the flow but rather reflows into the remaining text boxes.

Inserting a break to the next linked text box

You can insert a break to flow the text from where you currently are to the next box in the flow.

Position the cursor where you would like the break to begin and select Break from the Insert menu

(or type Command-Enter).

If the box is not linked to a “downstream” box,

will be displayed in the lower right corner of the

box in which you inserted the break, and the text after the insertion point will disappear from view.

You can, however, sketch another box and link to it from the box in which you inserted the break.

The text will automatically flow into the “downstream” box.

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