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Editing text
Double clicking on a text object in any tool takes you into the Text Tool
and places the cursor at the click position in the text.
All the normal word processor-style cursor and mouse operations can be used. For example:
Click where you want to place the cursor.
Use the left and right arrow keys to move left, right, up or down.
Use "Ctrl + left and right arrow keys" to move left or right one word.
Press "Home" or "End" to move to the start or end of the line.
Press "Ctrl + Home", or "Ctrl + End" to move to the start or end of the text object.
Text selection:
"Shift + any" of the above keys to select text
Double click to select a word
Triple click selects a whole line of text, or "Ctrl + L"
Quadruple (4x) click selects a paragraph of text
Or just drag across the text in the Text Tool to select the text
"Ctrl + A" will select all the text in the text object (you must be in the Text Tool.)
If you have a text selection any attribute change will apply only to the selected region of text. If you have
only the cursor in the text, then any attribute change, say selecting a new color, will only appear when you
type new text.
Selecting the whole text object
There is a quick shortcut for selecting the whole text object. Instead of using "Ctrl + A" or dragging
across all the text, simply press the "Esc"
key. This removes the cursor but selects the whole text (the status line will confirm 1 text object). This
makes it easy to apply an effect or attribute to the whole text story.
For example, to change the font size of the whole text object, just press "Esc"
and select the new size from the InfoBar.
Swap case
Pressing "Ctrl + W" will swap the case of the character after the cursor and move the cursor on. So, if
you've accidentally typed a section of text with the caps lock key on, just place the cursor at the start and
press and hold "Ctrl + W".
You can swap the case of a selected region of text, the same way. The cursor will not be moved.
Smart Quotes
When you type quote ' or double quote " characters, Web Designer MX Premium will automatically
convert these into the more appropriate and aesthetically accurate opening or closing quotes. So this
changes 'this' into 'this' and "quotes" into "quotes". It's smart enough to understand the use of single
quotes within words to signify missing characters, so that 'don't' becomes 'don't'
.
Entering special characters
There are a number of useful shortcuts to allow insertion of special characters, like © or ™. See Special
characters (in Text Tool)
section in "Menus and keyboard shortcuts".
All these shortcuts (with the exception of the hard space) are compatible with Microsoft Word.
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