The the First Steps video, when he opens up See See Rider, there are already text boxes at the beginning of sections for First Verse, Chorus, etc. There’s no explanation of how to make them and I can’t find info. I searched “Adding borders to text items” in the Dorico manual, but I don’t see Graphic Editing or Borders in Properties as described there.
Got it, thanks! I’d mistakenly used Shift T and unknowling ended up with tempo text.
Apologies for any confusion: the video was made a while ago, and since then I decided (rightly or wrongly) that those markings perhaps weren’t necessary to show as extra notational and potentially confusing clutter (given that this section of the guide doesn’t mention them).
The text items are still in the provided project, though: they’re hidden, and also text item signposts are hidden. But you can show text item signposts, then you’ll see them.
How to input text items was covered earlier in the guide, here:
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I just noticed that in the documentation, “lH” and “rH” are used. I have never seen them used with mixed upper and lower case, but pretty well always LH and RH. (I suppose lh and rh are possible, but they are certainly rarely, if ever, used).
Old (English) Schott editions used “l.h.” / “r.h.” or “L.H.” / “R.H.” (and possibly Paxton and Novello too).
I’m not sure if a convention exists.
I like “m.s.” and “m.d.”.
I have never seen “lH” and “rH” in organ music, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist somewhere.
Could it be that “lH” and “rH” is German for links and rechts Hand. I have to consult some old Breitkopf or Peters editions…
Now that you put the periods in, I do recognize l.h. and r.h.
The piano piece in First Steps used it that way in its original (or at least, available) edition.
The main purpose of that stage of the guide is to demonstrate how to add generic text items, and flip them to below the staff 
