Text goes to layer title, so irritating!

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I have altered something but can't find what.
When I type in text it will go into the layer title.
How do I change this default setting so it appears on my layer that is open?
Gill A

[webmaster]

Welcome to DEVPPL.

I don't think that's possible. But when you have entered the text you can merge it with the layer below it. (You will not be able to change the text after it's merged)

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Thank you for answering I thought my question was too difficult to answer.
I will re explain what is happening.
I open a new or old window, go to enter text, select text on the tool bar, click onto the page I have opened, the text cursor appears, I enter text, cursor will move slightly to the right and no text will appear.
If I go to layer, layer properties and there the text appears in the layer properties name.
This is my problem.
I can't get the text to appear on the page that I am writing on.It used to until yesterday I must have chnaged a setting.
Hope you can help me, its made my programme useless.
Gill A

[Dymo]

From what i could understand of yor question: It sounds like you have either the same color in the text and background or you have set the font size way to big for your immage.

Hope that helps.

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Now that I have zoomed out from my page (640w x 480h) I see the text cursor is about 1280 high when set at 1pt, in fact it does not have any effect if I set it to 60pt the cursor length still stays the same, so you may be correct about the font size being too big.
Now the next question is how do I decrease the height of the cursor, can't find where this can be altered.
Gill A

[Dymo]

Maby it is the font itself that is to big, have you tried with a different font?

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Yes I have tried that and it makes no difference.

Gill A

[thehen]

For font properties press CTRL+T when typing. Hope this helps.

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I have tried the CTRL+T and no difference.
Cursor stays the same large size.
Gill A

[tombothetominator]

here is a silly question:
after you select the text tool, do you just click on your image to get your text box, or are you dragging the box to the size you want it to be?

If you are just clicking then you get a tiny textbox that little or no text will fit into.

There is text in your box (you know this because the layer title is pulling in the text that you typed, and it pulls this from the information it finds INSIDE the text box) so it is either a matter of font sizing, or text box sizing.

Try click and dragging with the text tool to creat a large text box, and then see if youre text is visible (with a font size of ~12 or something)

Hope that helps.