Add text with the text editor – Apple Motion 5.1.1 User Manual

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In the Layout pane of the Text Inspector, adjust the Margins controls.

Margin controls

Note: When text is deleted from a paragraph, the paragraph margins remain in their
original locations.

Add text with the Text editor

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 rather than the Canvas. The Text editor is
useful when working with large amounts of text.

Enter text in the Text editor

1

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.

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