MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11, Use Manual

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You can apply stroke and fill colors to text blocks (see “Applying color to text and text blocks” on
page 269). You can also apply transformations, such as rotating, skewing, or scaling, as well as
remove the transformations you have applied (see “Using a Transform effect attribute” on
page 197). And you can duplicate or group text blocks (see “Grouping objects” on page 119) or
place them on different layers (see “Using layers” on page 289).
You can also apply live effects to text blocks. Live effects can be applied only to the text block,
however, and not the text within it. For more information about live effects, see Chapter 7,
“Special Effects,” on page 193.
To remove transformations applied to a text block:
1
Using the Pointer tool, select the text block.
2
Select Text > Remove Transforms.
Except for move transformations, all other transformations applied with the Modify >
Transform submenu options or the transformation tools in the Tools panel are removed.
Note: Live effects applied through the Object panel are not removed.
Moving, deleting, and resizing text blocks
You can move text blocks, and delete selected text blocks or all empty text blocks in a page or
document. By dragging their corner selection handles, you can resize fixed-size text blocks. When
working in Preview mode, you can turn selection highlights for text blocks on or off. For more
information, see “Using layer highlight colors” on page 296.
To move or delete a text block:
1
Using the Pointer tool, select the text block.
2
Do one of the following:
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To move the text block, drag it.
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To delete a text block, press Delete or select Edit > Clear. To delete an empty auto-expanding
text block, deselect the block.
To delete all the empty text blocks in a page or document:
Select Xtras > Delete > Empty Text Blocks. All empty text blocks in the document are removed.