If you need to type or edit a large amount of text, you may want to use the Story Editor or your word processor. For more information about editing text in PageMaker see Using Story Editor . It looks like a curved I and is referred to as an I-beam. Unless text already exists, the insertion point will position itself at the current default alignment. Type the text Placing an External Text File into Your Document Text files from PageMaker-compatible word processing programs such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect can be placed into a PageMaker document.
Text files with little or no formatting generally work best.
After placing the text into PageMaker you can edit, format and manipulate it using the same methods as you would for text typed directly into PageMaker. Flowing Text PageMaker offers two methods of placing text files into your publication. To activate Autoflow from the Layout menu, select Autoflow. When Autoflow is active, your cursor will appear as . Manual Flow Manual text flow requires you to change to each page on which you want the text to appear.