Apple Motion 5.1.1 - Manual (Page 621)

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Dynamically numbered lists are not supported. Lists become standard text when pasted.
Copy and paste text into a project
1 Open the text document (an RTF, TXT, Pages, or other text file) in a text-editing application.
2 Select and copy the text.
3 Do one of the following:
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In the Motion Toolbar, select the Text tool, click in the Canvas, then choose Edit > Paste (or
press Command-V).
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In the Format pane of the Text Inspector, click in the Text editor and choose Edit > Paste (or
press Command-V).
Ways to edit text
There are two basic ways to edit text in Motion:
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As an object: When you create text, it becomes an object in your project. Because text objects
share most characteristics of other objects in Motion, you can use the transform tools—Select/
Transform, Anchor Point, Distort, Drop Shadow, Four Corner, and Crop—to manipulate a
text object. These onscreen tools are shortcuts to the Transform controls in the Properties
Inspector. When you make changes to text using the transform tools or the parameters in
the Properties Inspector, modifications are applied to the text as an object rather than as
text characters.
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As text characters: Text objects also have editable text parameters that are separate from
the basic object parameters described above. The controls for editing these special text
parameters are located in the Text Inspector, including format, style, and layout settings.
Although some object properties are similar to text parameters (compare Shear in the
Properties Inspector to Slant in the Format pane of the Text Inspector, for example), object
properties are independent of the text format parameters, and vice versa. For example, if you
apply a Slant value of 20 in the Format pane of the Text Inspector, a Slant value of 20 is applied
to each character in the word, simulating italics. However, if you apply a Shear value of 20 in
the Properties Inspector (or via the onscreen controls), a Shear value of 20 is applied to the
object as a whole, not to text characters.
Text tools in the toolbar
The Motion toolbar contains several tools that you can use to manipulate text.
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Select/Transform tool: Use this tool to select and transform text as an object. After you finish
typing text, click the Select/Transform tool (or press Esc). Text is selected in the Canvas as
an object.
Note: When the Select/Transform tool is active, you can double-click existing text to enter
text-editing mode. When Motion is in text-editing mode, the Text tool is highlighted in
the toolbar.
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Text tool: Use this tool to create text or to edit text parameters.
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