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Resizing text areas
Using the Text Tool
, you can click and drag on any of the corner control handles. The text in the area will be reformatted to
fit the new size.
Alternatively you can use the Selector Tool to resize the text object, but in this case the behavior is
different. If you resize a text object using the Selector Tool, the text itself changes size. This is consistent
with the normal operation of the Selector Tool
.
However in the case of flowing text areas this would cause undesired side-effects; you almost certainly
do not want part of a flowing text story to be a different point size than the rest. Therefore, the Selector
Tool
behavior varies depending on whether you are resizing one text area that contains a flowing text story, or
resizing the whole text story. The rule is:

If you resize a single unconnected text area (or simple text or text column) then the area
"container" and text content are resized together.

If you select the text areas of the whole flowing text story (they have to be on a single page) then
a resize will resize the text and areas together.

But if you resize a text area that is part of a flowing series of text areas, then only the container
size is altered and the text inside remains the original size, and will be re-formatted to fit the new
size. This is like resizing a text area with the Text Tool.
If you want to resize all text in a text story, select it all with "Ctrl + A", and apply the required font size.
You can rotate a text area, using the Selector Tool
as normal, and the text will flow through the rotated text area normally.
Text flow is unaffected if you rotate any of the text areas
Hold down "Ctrl" while rotating to constrain the text rotation angle to 90° angles and screen aligned
angles.
Word count
The word and character count total of the current text is shown in the status line. This also shows the
number of overflowing words. If any region of text is selected, it shows the count of this selection
instead.
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