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In the second part, the text turns into filled shapes that cannot be edited with the Text tool.
                            ADDING TEXT TO A DRAWING                                                                                        To convert the Text into a shape, follow the given steps:


                  Adobe Animate provides two options to add text to a drawing. They are Label Text and Block                                            1  Select the text to be converted and click on the Modify tab.
                  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                                                                  2  Click on the
                  add Label Text or Block Text, follow the given steps:                                                                                                              Break Apart
                                                                                                                                                                                     command.
                                                    1  Click on the Text tool.



                                                                            A circle in the upper-right corner of the
                                                                             text indicates that it is a Label Text.                        The text is converted into graphics as shown above.

                             2  Position the mouse
                             pointer and click on it.
                                                                                                                                                    uiz    Bee       Which tool allows you to type text in a drawing?

                                                                                  3  Type the desired text.                                                          _____________________________________________________________




                            FORMATTING TEXT
                                                                                                                                                       SELECTING AN OBJECT
                  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:                                                         Whenever we want to change the properties of an object, we must first select it. We can select an

                                                                                                                                            object by using the Selection tool or Lasso tool.
                                                               3  Select the
                                                               font size.
                                                                                                  2  Select the                             SELECTION TOOL
                                                                                                  font face.
                                                                                                                                            The Selection tool allows us to select an object in a rectangular selection marquee by clicking and
                                                                                                       6  Select                            dragging over the object. To select an object, follow the given steps:
                                                                                                      spacing
                                    1  Select the text.                                                                                                                                                                     1  Click on
                                                                                                  4  Select the                                                                                                            Selection tool.
                                                                                                 Fill option.

                                                           5  Select the colour.



                            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                                       2  Place the mouse pointer and drag
                      command is applied to the selected text.                                                                                                  over the object, you want to select.




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