# Text Management

## How to Assign a Text Instance to a BOM

| ### What to do:
| To work through this example, you must have created an item (see: Item Management)
| Select Start > Item and select the item Ballpen
| Click on the BOM tab and click to change to Insert mode
| In the Type field select T for text. The Item Number field is filled in automatically with a Null-Item.
| Scroll to the Text Name field and select the text instance INS-001.
| To save the entry click .