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Adding text to a menu

You can add nonclickable text (or a “text object”)—including titles, descriptions, personal commentary, and so on—to any menu. You can add as many lines of text as will comfortably fit on the menu and position it where you want.

By default, the style for text added to a menu is the same as the default style of the menu title (that is, the text style that comes with the theme you have chosen). However, you can easily customize the typeface, font size, font style, and color of the text you add. Also, each text object on your menu can have a different appearance.

To add text to a menu:

Step 1

Make sure the menu to which you want to add text is showing in the iDVD window.

Step 2

Choose Project > Add Text.

The phrase “Click to edit” appears on the menu.

Step 3

Click the text once to highlight it, and then type the new text.

An in-place control (shown below) appears below the text. It has controls for changing the typeface, font style, and font size of the text. You can make changes if you want, or click on the menu outside the text to make the in-place editor disappear.

Image of menu title selected with in-place editor showing below it
Step 4

With the text still selected, drag the text to the place you want it on the menu.

To change other attributes of the text, such as its color, press Command-I while the text is selected. This opens the Text Info window, which has all the controls for modifying the text.

Related Topics

Changing the appearance of menu text

Changing the label (name) of a button

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