Exercise 9.7: Adding moving text to the page

Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 9.6: Adding a picture to the page.

To add moving text:

  1. Back to the Design page, position the cursor underneath your company name.
  2. Click Insert from the workbench menu.
  3. Click Paragraph > Heading 3 on the pop-up menu.
    Heading 3
  4. Leave the cursor positioned inside the heading 3 frame.
  5. Click Insert from the workbench menu.
    Insert Marquee
  6. Click Others > Marquee on the pop-up menu

    The Insert Marquee window opens.
    Insert Marquee window

  7. Enter into the Text field Please enter customer number and press Submit button to start application.
  8. Select Slide from the Movement list.
  9. Select Finite from the Repetition list.
  10. Select 1 from the Count list.

    The two last selections just avoid the text sliding in forever and not standing still. If you want more movement on the page, you can change these settings.

  11. Select Lime in the Background color list.
  12. Click OK.

    The Design page should look like:

    To save some space, you can remove some of the line break tags.

  13. Position the cursor on the BR tag.
    Remove BR
  14. Press the Delete key until the entry field and push buttons appear on your page:

    Next you view the page as it would appear in a browser.

  15. Click the Preview tab at the bottom of the Design page.

    You will notice that your heading 3 text is sliding in.
    Preview page -- text sliding in

You have added a marquee to the input page and now you are ready to begin Exercise 9.8: Changing the text color.