Creating the title I want as opposed to the one FCP X wants?

Apart from playing around with FCP X, I have more or less given up on it for serious work!
However, a friend of mine has not and asked me  this question which had also given me problems.
How do I make a simple title with text in the size, colour and font of my choosing and then position it on the screen where I want?
This is an absolute basic essential but FCP X makes it very difficult.
Any suggestions or is it a matter of sending a title to Motion and adding all the parameters I/we need, which is a ridiculous complication to what should be a simple task?

Thanks.
I was half way through writing to say that I had looked (before posting my question) in the Inspector for the Custom parameters and they were not there.
However, I have looked again and realised that the Inspector had the "Video" selected!
Selecting the "Text" option at the top allowed me to alter the font, size and colour though they were at first hidden and had to be revealed.

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