1. Choose File ⟶ Place. The Place dialog box will appear.
2. Locate the document that contains the text you want to place and select it.
3. Click on Open in the Place dialog box. The pointer changes to the loaded text icon.
4. Make a text block to place the text. (Or) Click in the page to place the text. The text will be placed in the page. If the text to be placed is too big to fit on one page, PageMaker allows you to place it on several pages. This can be done manually or automatically.

To select text using a keyboard, follow these steps:
1. Place the Insertion point to the left of the first character you wish to select
2. The Shift key is pressed down and the movement keys are used to highlight the required text.
3. When the Shift key is released, the text is selected

1. Click on the Pointer tool.
2. Click either the left or right corner handle on the bottom of the text block and drag. When you release the mouse button, the text in the text block will reflew to fit the new size of the text block.
3. A red triangle in the bottom windowshade means there is more text in the text block than is visible on the page. Drag the window shade handle down to show more text

Deleting Text
You can easily delete a character, or word, or block of text.
To delete a character, do the following:
1. Position the insertion point to the left of the character to be deleted.
2. Press Delete key on the keyboard. (or)
3. Position the insertion point to the right of the character to be deleted.
4. Press Backspace key on the keyboard.
To delete a block of text, do the following :
1. Select the text to be deleted.
2. Press Delete or Backspace in the keyboard (or) Edit ⟶ Clear command.

To select text using a mouse, follow these steps :
1. Place the Insertion point to the left of the first character to be selected.
2. Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse to a position where you want to stop selecting.
3. Release the mouse button.
4. The selected text gets highlighted.