Adding text in Adobe Illustrator

[Shari35886345mbt7]

How do I add text into my artboard in Adobe Illustrator? I keep getting a pop-up promt with an exclamation point to select a symbol first, but I cannot find an option to select a symbol anywhere.

[Doug A Roberts]

Select the type tool (T) and either click once on the canvas (to create point text) or click and drag (to create area text).

I don't know in what circumstances you would be asked to select a symbol except when using the symbol sprayer tool, but I'm not sure how you would have ended up trying to use that when adding text. Perhaps you could show a screenshot if this situation reoccurs?

[Shari35886345mbt7]

Thank you for the reponse!  🙂  I am just new to Adobe Illustrator. I will try your suggestions.