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- [Instructor] In this movie
I'll show you how to import

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text that you created in
advance using a word processor.

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Now it's not absolutely necessary
that you create your text

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in advance, you can create type
directly inside Illustrator

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as easily as selecting the
type tool, which you can get by

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pressing the "t" key and then
you can go ahead and click

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inside your document, at which point

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Illustrator automatically
adds some placeholder text

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which is designed to help
you preview how your text

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is going to look.

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The fact that it's white on
black shows you that the text

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is selected so that you
can replace that text

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anytime you like, but
first I'm going to go ahead

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and increase the type
size by going up here

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to the control panel and
selecting, let's say 24-point

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from this pop up menu and
then I can just enter whatever

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text I like from the
keyboard and that works great

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when you're creating a
line of type here or there

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as we'll see in future movies
but in our case we've got

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this three-page document and
so we're better off preparing

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our text in advance in
Microsoft Word or what-have-you

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because that way at the very
least you can spell-check

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your manuscript before
bringing it into Illustrator.

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And I say that because between you and me,

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spell checking is not one
of Illustrator's strengths.

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Word and the other apps
do a much better job.

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So, I'm going to go ahead and
press the Escape key to exit

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the text entry mode and return control

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to the Black Arrow tool up
here at the top of the toolbox

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and then I'll press the
backspace key or the delete key

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on the Mac to get rid of that text.

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To place text created in another program,

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you go up to the File menu and
you choose the Place command,

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which has a keyboard
shortcut of ctrl + shift + p

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here on the PC or cmd
+ shift + p on the Mac.

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Now, if you're working along with me,

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go ahead and make your way to
the 08_text subfolder here,

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in which among all these Illustrator files

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you will find this RTF document
near the bottom of the list.

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RTF stands for Rich Text
Format, which allows you

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to save formatting along with your text,

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but it could just as easily
be a doc or docx file

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which are Word's native formats

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or it could be a text-only document.

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In any case, once you've selected
a word processing document

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go ahead and click the Place button,

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after which you may
see this Microsoft Word

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options dialog box.

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It doesn't really apply
to my text, however,

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notice that we can choose
whether or not to include

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table of contents, footnotes or an index,

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so if your document contains
such things, then great,

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you also have the option of getting rid

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of any and all text formatting.

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In my case, I'm not going to
change any of these settings,

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I'm just going to click OK.

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At which, as you'll see,
I load my cursor with text

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and now I can do one of two things.

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I could just click inside the
document in order to create

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a new text object, or if
I wanted to find the size

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of that object I can drag
with my cursor like so

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and then Illustrator places
the text inside the rectangle

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defined by my drag.

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Now, obviously, this
text object doesn't fit

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any of the guides that I set
up in the previous movie,

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but that's okay given that
I can resize that text frame

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to any extent I like and you
do that by first pressing

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the Escape key, which will
exit the text entry mode

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and return control to the Black Arrow tool

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and then go to the View menu
and choose Show Bounding Box

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in order to turn the bounding
box on and you also have this

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keyboard shortcut of
ctrl + shift + b for box.

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That's cmd + shift + b on the Mac.

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At which point you can
now see these handles

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surrounding the text frame,
which means we can now go ahead

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and resize this frame so that
it fits inside of this area

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right here.

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And notice that I'm filling
the margins all the way up

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to the second horizontal guide.

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Alright, now notice if you
will this red thing down here

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in the bottom right
corner of the textframe.

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It's hard to make out
but it's supposed to be

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a little red square with
a plus sign inside of it,

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which indicates that we have
what's known as overflow text.

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In other words, there's
more text than we're seeing

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inside this first frame.

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To flow that text on to the next artboard,

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go ahead and click on that
little plus sign right there

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and that will automatically
switch you back to the type tool

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as you can see here inside the toolbox

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and load your cursor with text once again.

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At which point, do you
want to press shift + PgDn

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in order to advance to the next artboard.

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And now you can just click with
this cursor in the top left

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corner of the margin guide
in order to create a new text

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frame that almost fills
the space but not quite.

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If I don't like that I
can just press ctrl + z

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or cmd + z key on the Mac,
to undo the placement of that

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text and reload my cursor
as you're seeing right here

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and then I can drag to
draw a big rectangle

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across the entire margin guide.

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Either way, you can see that
we still have more overflow

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text as witnessed by the
appearance of this plus sign

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inside the red box, but
there's another way to work.

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I'm going to press ctrl
or cmd + z once again

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to undo that text placement
and reload my cursor.

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Your other option is to press
the alt key or the option key

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on the Mac in which case
you'll see a little loopy Arrow

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next to your cursor.

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Don't drag with this cursor,
just go ahead and click with it

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and then release the alt or
option key, and notice this time

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you not only place some
additional overflow text

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but you automatically reload your cursor

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with still more overflow
text, at which point

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you'll want to press shift
+ PgDn in order to advance

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to the third artboard and this
time I'm going to go ahead

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and drag across the entire margin guide

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in order to fill the page like so.

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Alright that leaves a sloppy textframe

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in the second artboard,
so I'll press shift + PgUp

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to go back to the second
artboard and I'll click

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on this textframe to select
it and now I'll go ahead

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and drag this bottom handle downward

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so that it snaps into
alignment with the bottom

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of the margin guide.

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Alright, now I'm going to
zoom out to take in all of the

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artboards by up to the
View menu and choosing

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Fit All in Windows or you
have the keyboard shortcut

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of ctrl + alt + 0 or cmd
+ option + 0 on the Mac.

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And you can see if I select
his bottom frame down here

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that we no longer have any overflow text,

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so that's a good thing
and we're also seeing

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how these frames are threaded
and so that's what's meant

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by these big thick purple lines here.

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So, in other words, the text
block on the first artboard

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is threaded to the text
block on the second artboard

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which is then threaded
to this final text block.

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And that's how you place text
that you prepare in advance

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in a word processor and then
flow onto multiple artboards

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here inside Illustrator.