ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3
User Guide
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When you have finished entering text, do one of the following:
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Click outside the text block.
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Select another tool in the Tools panel.
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Press Escape.
Moving text blocks
You can select a text block and move it anywhere in your document, as you would any other object. You can also
move text blocks as you drag to create them.
To move a text block:
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Drag it to the new location.
To move a text block while you drag to create it:
1
While holding down the mouse button, press and hold down the Spacebar, then drag the text block to another
location on the canvas.
2
Release the Spacebar to continue drawing the text block.
Using auto-sizing and fixed-width text blocks
Fireworks has both auto-sizing text blocks and fixed-width text blocks. An auto-sizing text block expands horizon-
tally as you type. If you remove text, the auto-sizing text block shrinks to accommodate only the remaining text.
Auto-sizing text blocks are created by default when you click on the canvas with the Text tool and start typing.
Fixed-width text blocks allow you to control the width of wrapped text. Fixed-width text blocks are created by default
when you drag to draw a text block using the Text tool.
When the text pointer is active within a text block, a hollow circle or hollow square appears in the upper right corner
of the text block. The circle indicates an auto-sizing text block; the square indicates a fixed-width text block. Double-
click the corner to change from one kind of text block to the other.
A fixed-width text block and an auto-sizing text block
A.
Fixed-width indicator
B.
Auto-sizing indicator
To change a text block to fixed-width or auto-sizing:
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Double-click inside the text block.
2
Double-click the circle or square in the upper right corner of the text block.
The text block changes to the other type.
To change a selected text block to fixed-width by resizing it:
❖
Drag a resize handle.
This automatically changes the text block from auto-sizing to fixed-width.
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