Click outside the text object. Canvas creates a new text
object where you click. The text object you were editing is
not in edit mode and isnt selected.
Choose the Save command in the File menu. The text object
you were editing is not in edit mode, and the Text tool
remains active.
Text selection and navigation
You can move the insertion point and select characters, words, lines,
and paragraphs using the mouse or the keyboard.
The mouse lets you quickly select text or text objects and move the
insertion point. However, if you work with a lot of text, you might
find that the keyboard techniques let you move the insertion point
more precisely to edit more quickly.
Making text selections
Before you can cut, copy, move, delete, type over, or perform other
operations on text characters, you need to select the text within a text
object. You can select text when a text object is in edit mode. For
information on putting a text object in edit mode, see Text edit
mode on page 27.513.
The phrases selected text, text selection, and highlighted text
all refer to an active selection of characters within a text object.
Selected text appears highlighted; the highlight color depends on
your systems color settings.
Keep in mind that a text selection is not the same as a selected text
object. When you select a text object, you can move, copy, delete,
and perform other operations on the entire object. When you make a
text selection, the editing actions will affect only the highlighted
characters within the object.
To deselect all highlighted text: Click anywhere in the text
object or layout. Clicking outside the selected text object creates
another text object at that location.
Using the keyboard for text editing
While editing text, you can use the key combinations listed in the fol-
lowing table to move the insertion point and select text.