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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

In order to edit the attributes of an existing
Text objects do not support multiple
Text object, you must select some or all fonts or other attributes in the same text
of the text before making changes. See “Text object. When you choose an attribute, it is
Panel” on page 494. applied to all characters in the text object.

To edit Text attributes Using the Mouse
1. Select a Text object and click the
A selected Rich Text or Text object
Open Object edit button. has the same edit handles as other box-based
2. On the TEXT panel of the Rich Text objects. See “Editing Box-Based Objects” on
Specification dialog, click and drag to page 236.
select some or all of the text typed into
the Text field. Move
Extend/
Contract
Resize

Rotate
3. With some or all of the text selected, As a text box’s width is made narrower or
change any of the attributes available wider using an edit handle, its height may
along the top of the panel, including the increase or decrease so that none of the text
font, size, color, and style. becomes hidden. The opposite is not true,
however: a text box’s height cannot be
resized smaller than the height of the rows of
text it currently contains, plus its margins.

Depending on the active Edit Behavior ,
the text box and the characters within it may
or may not resize together when a corner edit
4. As changes are made, the selected text handle is dragged. See “Defaults,
updates. Only the selected text is modi- Preferences, and Edit Behaviors” on page
fied.
208.
• I f Resize editing is enabled, both the
text object and the font resizes when a
corner edit handle is dragged.

• I f Default o r Concentric editing
is enabled, the text box resizes, but not
the font size.

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