Motion 5 - Adding Text with the Text Editor

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Adding Text with the Text Editor

After you add a blank text object to your project (by selecting the Text tool and clicking
in the Canvas), you can enter and edit text in the Text editor rather than the Canvas. The
Text editor is useful when working with large amounts of text.

To enter text in the Text editor

1

Click the Text tool (or press T), then click or drag in the Canvas to create a blank text
object.

• If you click in the Canvas, you activate the default layout method (Type), which requires

that you insert manual line breaks (by pressing Return) to make text wrap to a new
line.

• If you drag in the Canvas, you activate the Paragraph layout method, which wraps text

into a column.

2

In the Text Inspector, click Format to open the Format pane.

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3

Click in the Text editor and begin typing.

Text Entry area

You can also edit text in the Text editor and use the Mac OS X spelling checker.

To edit text using the Text editor

1

In the Layers list, select the text to be edited.

Note: You can also select the Text tool (in the toolbar) and click the text to edit in the
Canvas.

The selected text appears in the Text editor.

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2

Make changes in the Text editor.

Changes are reflected in the Canvas.

To use the spelling checker in the Text editor
Do one of the following:

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Click in the Text editor, then choose an option from the Edit > Spelling and Grammar
submenu.

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Control-click in the Text editor, then choose an item from the shortcut menu.

When a spelling error is found, the text is highlighted in the Text editor. If the Text tool
is active when the spelling is checked, the text is selected in the Canvas.

Note: The spelling checker is not available when working with text in the Canvas.