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Adding text in Adobe Illustrator

New Here ,
Mar 24, 2024 Mar 24, 2024

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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.

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Mar 25, 2024 Mar 25, 2024

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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?

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Apr 01, 2024 Apr 01, 2024

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

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