Texas Instruments TINSPIRE Teacher Software Guidebook - Page 465

A text box with a blinking cursor appears at the location you selected. 3. Type the text. 4. Press · to anchor the text on the work area. You can create a text chain by using the Attach tool on the context menu to connect text objects of the same type to each other. Detach disassociates chained text from a text chain. Spacing, alignment, and updating of calculated value text is handled automatically for chained text. Note: You cannot include pinned text, text hidden using the Show/Hide tool, or geometric scale values in a text chain. 5. You can customize text objects to suit your needs. • Use context menu options to change text objects. - Convert text created in Graphing View to geometric text. - Convert text created in Plane Geometry View (outside of the analytic window) to analytic text. - Attach analytic or geometric text to text of the same type. • Use the Text tool to enter numerical values that the Graphs & Geometry application can interpret as numbers. You can use these numeric text entries for calculations, or for specifying measurements. 6. Press d or choose another tool to exit the Text tool. Working with multiple objects You can select multiple objects with the Pointer tool or Select tool, and then use other tools to perform certain actions on several objects at once. As you move around and over objects, helpful details display, such as information about the object type, object state (for example, pinned, locked, or grouped). Graphs & Geometry 453