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Auto-updating text - iBooks Author Tutorial
From the course: iBooks Author Essential Training
Auto-updating text
- Our custom photo collage layout for our "Explore California" travel guide is coming along nicely. The next thing we need to do is to define some auto-updating text. Down here in the bottom, we have "Photos from the CHAPTER Tour." Let's go ahead and double-click "CHAPTER," and go up to the "Insert" menu, and select "Section Title." A box has been placed around the text, and it's now called "EXPLORE California." When we double-click on that box, a new pop-up window opens up, and it's asking us to define what auto text that we want to have in here. Let's go ahead and select "Current Chapter" because we're gonna have one of these photo collages for each of our chapters. Let's also go ahead and make one minor modification to this whole text box by adjusting the width so it's over just a little bit, so it's not tight up against the edge. Now, let's go ahead and add auto text to add our page number. Double-click to select the page number that we created. Go up to the "Insert" menu and…
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Templates in iBook Author3m 18s
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Starting with a Blank Template1m 28s
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Modifying existing layouts5m 13s
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Creating a custom layout3m 57s
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Placeholder media1m 1s
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Placeholder text50s
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Auto-updating text1m 17s
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Photo collage layout3m 25s
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Custom template4m 19s
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Creating a portrait-only book2m 4s
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