User Guide

102 Studio 8
The activation of the text field is indicated by a text
insertion cursor, the changed appearance of the object
frame, and the disappearance of the control points.
When a text object is not selected, you can activate its
text field directly by clicking in the middle of the
object. If you want the selection frame and control
points to appear, you must click on the edges of the
object. With other objects, you can click anywhere in
the object to select it.
To deactivate a text field, click anywhere in the Edit
Window outside the text object.
Because text plays a central role in most titles and
menus, the Text Editor will automatically create and
activate a text object in the centre of the Edit Window
if you simply begin typing when no other text object
exists.
Advanced text editing features
As in a word processing program, the Title Editor
allows you to apply some formatting to a selected
range of characters. Simply mark an adjacent set of
characters with the mouse and apply the formatting
your desire.
Supported operations on character ranges include text
styling (font, style and look), clipboard operations (cut,
copy, paste), delete, and a number of special
positioning, spacing and scaling commands that are
accessible only from the keyboard. For details on these,
please consult Appendix G: Keyboard Shortcuts.