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- From: loa@syo.lu.se (Lars-Olof Albertson)
- Subject: Re: Text in Background Fields
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.192835.10620@pollux.lu.se>
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- Organization: Lund University
- References: <ellens-050193130021@47.220.2.154>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:28:35 GMT
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- In article <ellens-050193130021@47.220.2.154> ellens@bnr.ca (Chris Ellens)
- writes:
- > I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but I'm stumped. How can I
- create
- > a field in the background and enter text into it? I can create the field
- > ok, and I can enter text into it at the card layer, but if I then set the
- > "shared text" property, all of the text disappears. I can't enter the
- text
- > at the background layer at all (I don't get the I-beam cursor). Cutting
- the
- > field from a card and pasting to the background also deleted all of the
- > text.
- Chris,
- You must be in the backgound to be able to write in a field with shared
- text.
- Just take the menu Edit, Background and then you can enter text
- to a field with shared text.
-
- Greetings
-
- Lars-Olof Albertson
-