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596Motion User Guide
3. Begin typing at the flashing insertion point.
Text automatically wraps to the next line when you reach the right margin (the right side
of the bounding box).
Note: You can also type paragraph text in the Text editor field of the Format pane (in the
Text Inspector).
4. When you finish typing, press Esc or Command-Return.
5. To adjust the margins, drag a handle on the bounding box.
When text extends beyond the upper and lower edges of the text-entry field, a scroll
control appears on the right side of the text-entry field.
For more information about text margins, see Create and adjust text margins in Motion
and Text Margins controls in Motion.
Add text from the Inspector
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 of the Inspector, rather than in
the canvas. The Text editor, located at the bottom of the Text Inspector’s Format pane, is
useful when working with large amounts of text.
1. In Motion, 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.
3. Optional: Choose font formatting options in the Format pane.
You can choose a font type, size, alignment, and more.