Creating simple text only buttons?

My first post. And my first DSP project.
This project is a series of video clips that have chapter markings.
I've read up on how to do custom backgrounds, and I'm okay so far.
The challenge is to create up to very simple 14 buttons for the chapters, in a way that I can easily copy and rename them for the next menu and the next dvd in the series.
I'm looking to create the simplest buttons, in fact, white text only would be fine. I'd want the 3 states to work.
The button templates in DSP3 allow me to create buttons, but the ones I've tried all seem to be appear with a "button" image also, rather than text only.
Any suggestions?
(please remember I'm at the basic level so far..)

Drag a rectangle in the Menu editor window to make a button. Type the text you want to appear in the Text section of the Inspector palette. Then select "Include Text in Highlight." You'll probably have to adjust the text position and the position of the button. You can change the highlight color with the Highlight pop-up just above the Text section of the Inspector palette.
The text highlights that DVDSP makes are pretty rough; you would get smoother highlights doing the buttons and overlays separately in a graphics program.

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