How To Do Very Basic Stuff?

[Blighty]

(11-05-2017, 11:02 AM)abrogard Wrote: all that layers stuff sounds like it might be where we were going wrong...  

Your layers dialogue should look something like this:
(The Dotted B layers is selected in the layers dialogue)

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Edit: You could select a whole row of letters at once, instead of doing them one at a time. Depends on what you want your final page to look like.