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641Motion User Guide
Remove a tab
1. Double-click paragraph-style text in the Motion canvas to display the text-entry field.
2. Drag the tab (the small black icon) away from the ruler and release the mouse button.
The tab is removed from the ruler in the Tabs controls in the Layout pane of the Text
Inspector.
Layout controls in the Text Inspector
Text Layout controls in Motion
Use the Layout Controls group to set basic layout options for a text object:
• Layout Method: A pop-up menu to set any of five kinds of text layouts:
• Type: The default method, creates a single line of text. As text is added, the string
of text continues off the canvas. (If you need text to wrap to multiple lines, use the
Paragraph layout method instead, described below.)
• Paragraph: Creates text with margins and line wrapping. When Layout Method is
set to Paragraph, Margins controls become available in the lower area of the Layout
pane. Double-click the text in the canvas when Layout Method is set to Paragraph
to display a bounding box, ruler, and scroll control around the text-entry field. When
you delete text from a paragraph text-entry field, paragraph margins do not change.
For information on modifying or creating paragraph-style text, see Add text in
Motion.
• Path: Creates text on a path and makes the Path Options controls available. The
path can be an open or closed spline, a circle, a rectangle, a wave, or based on a
geometry shape. See Create text on a path in Motion.
• Scroll: Positions the margins of the text-entry field to match the project’s safe zones
in preparation for a scrolling animation. Double-click the text in the canvas to display
a ruler and an enhanced scroll control showing a preview of the text. Drag in the
scroll bar to navigate through large amounts of text. Scroll does not animate the
text—text is only positioned and formatted in preparation for you to create scrolling
animation using keyframes or behaviors. For more information on animating text, see
Intro to animated text in Motion. When Layout Method is set to Scroll, the following
occurs: The Transform Glyph tool is not available; the Offset, Rotation, and Affects
Layout controls in the Format pane are not available; and the text is flattened, so the
Flatten, Render Text, and Face Camera controls are not available. (See the Flatten
checkbox description in Text Rendering controls in Motion.)
• Crawl: Positions the text in a single string (within project safe zones) along the
bottom of the project in preparation for a crawl or ticker-type animation. Double-
click the text in the canvas to display a scroll control below the text-entry field.
Crawl does not animate the text—text is only positioned and formatted in preparation
for you to create an animation using keyframes or behaviors. For more information
on animating text, see Intro to animated text in Motion. When Layout Method is set
to Crawl, the following occurs: Tabs are not available; the Transform Glyph tool is not
available; the Offset, Rotation, and Affects Layout controls in the Format pane are
not available; and the text is flattened. As a result, the Flatten, Render Text, and Face
Camera controls are not available. (See the Flatten checkbox description in Text
Rendering controls in Motion.)