The purpose of this library object is that you can place it as is on the page when nothing is selected on the page, and that you can create a new article.

To create a head and body library object with local text/format/styles

1.Create a new empty object in a library. If the library grid is not what you expected, see About page grid in library windows for the procedure on how to adjust it.

2.In the library window, press H and then create a shape of head and body in the required size, starting from the top-left corner.

3.Adjust the headline height as explained in Scale articles or complex objects and Scale headline vertically with auto-shift.

4.Select the body columns and then press 1-9 to resplit them in the desired number of columns.

5.Select the headline frame and then press Spacebar to start to edit the headline frame.

6.The software prompts you to select the format: select the suitable headline format.

7.Write (optionally) some dummy text e.g. Lead 54 and then applied the suitable paragraph style.

8.Click the first body frame and then write (optionally) a word Text and then applied a body style on it.

9.Exit the text editing, and on the Window > Palettes > Tool display the Tool palette.

10.Select the headline frame, set the values as stated in the following paragraph and then click the green confirmation icon.

Values:

•The Local text handling is set to Insert at top of linked text. This provides for a silent insertion of dummy text and styles in frames and similar (if any). Have in mind that it makes sense only for the first frame of the type.

•The Article box contains Create new article.

•The Link box is ticked.

•The Format box contains the appropriate headline format.

11.Select the body frames, set the values as stated in the following paragraph and then click the green confirmation icon.

Values:

•The Local text handling is set to Insert at top of linked text. This provides for a silent insertion of dummy text in body frames and similar (if any). Have in mind that it makes sense only of the first frame of the type.

•The Article box contains Use current article (if any).

•The Link box is ticked.

•The Format box contains the appropriate body format.

•A style and short dummy text is inserted in the first body frame.

Notes

The settings of the Tool are important in the following scenarios:

•You want that the library object automatically creates an article and links to it. Alternatively, you want that the library object automatically displays the list of existing articles to link to one of those, or that it creates an article and links to it.

•You want that the shape can replace an existing shape on page.