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ADDING TEXT TO A DRAWING

            Adobe Animate provides two options to add text to a drawing. They are Label Text and Block
            Text. When text is added to Label Text, the text does not wrap. The width of the text box keeps
            expanding. When text is added to Block Text, we specify a width and while typing the text, if it
            reaches the end of the block, it wraps to start a new line and increases the depth of the box. To

            add Label Text or Block Text, follow the given steps:


                                                                          A circle in the upper-right corner of the
                                                                           text indicates that it is a Label Text.




                                            2  Position the mouse
                  1  Click on              pointer and click on it.
                 the Text tool.                                                    3  Type the desired text.




                      FORMATTING TEXT

            Adobe Animate allows us to format the entered text by changing the font, colour, size, etc. under
            the Properties inspector. To format the text, follow these steps:





                                                           3  Select the
                                                           font size.                      2  Select the
                                                                                           font face.



                             1  Select the text.                                            6  Select
                                                                                           spacing

                                                     5  Select the color.                  4  Select the
                                                                                           Fill option.




                      CONVERTING TEXT INTO A SHAPE

            Animate allows us to convert the text into graphics by using the Break Apart command. Text can
            be converted into shapes in two parts:

                In the first part, the text is split into editable, single character blocks after the Break Apart
              command is applied to the selected text.

                In the second part, the text turns into filled shapes that cannot be edited with the Text tool.






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