Collocations for text - noun

complete, full
The newspaper printed the full text of the interview.

draft | final | original | main
The illustrations are printed separately from the main text.

accompanying
The catalogue consists of colour reproductions of the paintings with accompanying text.

electronic, handwritten, printed, typewritten, written

block, body, chunk, line, page, piece, portion
Hand symbols in the main body of the text cross-refer the reader to the appendices. | Use the mouse to move chunks of text from place to place.

create, draft, write | edit, modify | highlight | cut, delete | insert, move, paste | scan (in) | handle, manipulate, process
computer programs that process text

set, typeset | print | publish | read | transcribe | annotate | stray from
She strayed from the text in a few places to illustrate some of her more interesting points.

file
The program allows you to import text files from other word processors.

editor
one of the best HTML text editors available

message, messaging
The text message just said ‘Hope 2CU@the party’.

basic, key, standard | recommended, set
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ was one of our set texts for A level.

prepared
He stood up and began reading from a prepared text.

authoritative, influential | introductory | academic, dramatic, legal, literary, poetic, sacred, scientific, etc.
We''re studying dramatic texts by sixteenth-century playwrights.

biology, mathematics, etc.

read (from) | analyse, deconstruct, interpret, study | annotate

analysis

in a/the ~
We discussed the use of metaphor in the text.

~ about/on
a poetic text about growing up in rural England