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291Final Cut Pro User Guide
Use the ruler to align paragraph text objects
Text created in Motion and some titles included with Final Cut Pro contain paragraph
text. You can use a ruler and tabs to control the layout of paragraph text. See the
Motion User Guide.
1. In Final Cut Pro, double-click a paragraph text object in the viewer.
2. In the viewer, click the Show Ruler button.
Note: The Show Ruler button appears only when you edit a paragraph text object.
A ruler appears above the paragraph text object in the viewer. Tabs in the ruler show
how tabbed text will be aligned in the selected text.
3. Do any of the following:
• Add a tab: Click in the ruler.
• Add a specific tab type when you click in the ruler: Control-click in the ruler and
choose a tab type.
This also changes the type of tab added to the ruler when you click in it.
• Move a tab: Drag it to another position on the ruler.
• Delete a tab: Drag it out of the ruler.
• Change a tab to another tab type: Control-click the tab and choose a tab type.