Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

You can add text to your Flash movie with

the Text tool. In Flash, text fields have many

properties, and can be formatted a number of

ways. To start, you can create your text fields

to be either fixed width or dynamic width.

You can make further adjustments in the

Properties inspector to get your desired look.

Dynamic width text fields expand in width as you type,

whereas fixed width text fields wrap your text to a new line,

but maintain their width.

Add Text with the Text Tool

Add Text with

the Text Tool

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CREATE A TEXT BOX WITH A

DYNAMIC WIDTH

1 Click the Text tool ( ) or

press .

2 Move the mouse pointer over the

Stage area ( changes to ).

3 Click on the ...