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Creating an HTML Text Object

You might want a text object to change color, size, or content by using HTML input. To do this, you must first configure the text object to work with HTML.

ClosedTo configure a text object to accept HTML input

  1. On the object toolbar, click the icon. Alternatively, click Text on the Create menu.

  2. Under Markup Language Containers, click HTML.

  3. Click the location on the template where you want to add the text object.

  4. Double-click the text object to open the Markup Language Text Properties dialog. Alternatively, right-click the object, and then click Properties.

  5. In the navigation pane, click Markup Language in the list of available property pages if it is not already selected.

  6. In the Markup language list, verify that HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is selected.

  7. In the navigation pane, select the data source that you want to contain the HTML code.

  8. In the Embedded Data field, enter the HTML code. Alternatively, you can modify the source to automatically import HTML from another data source, such as a database or VBScript.