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Once you set tab stops for a paragraph, press Tab in subsequent paragraphs to type text in the location
of the next tab stop. In a text layer, each time you press Enter, the tab stops you set in the previous
paragraph are carried to the next paragraph.
Spell Checking
In the Spell Check menu, you can check the spelling of the text in a text layer. When spelling errors are
encountered, a red line is drawn through words not in its dictionary. By default, the spell checker uses the
language and dictionary installed with the operating system to verify the spelling of words. You can also
create your own custom dictionary.
NOTE If the spell checker is not installed on your system, the Spell Check menu controls are disabled.
To access the Spell Check menu:
1 In the Text menu, click Spell Check.
The Spell Check menu appears.
To spell check a text layer:
1 In the Text menu, click Spell Check.
2 Enable Check All Layers.
Lines appear through misspelled words.
3 To correct misspellings, in Edit mode, click Next or Previous to navigate to each misspelled word.
Creating Text Rolls and Text Crawls
You can create text rolls, which are commonly used for credit rolls. A text roll is a layer of text that rolls
from the bottom to the top of a clip for a series of frames. In a text roll, you can use special fonts as well as
coloured, animated, and tabulated text.
You can include logos of sponsors, contributors, and products in text rolls. For example, you can create a
list of credits that uses a green, sheared font for all contributors' names and includes a single, larger capitalized
letter spinning on an axis at the beginning of each title line. The contributors' names can appear in a white,
semi-transparent, Courier-type font.
A text crawl scrolls text horizontally across the frame. For example, you can create a list of phone numbers
that scroll from left to right across the bottom of the screen during a telethon broadcast.
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