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ENCORE CS3 84 User Guide The text bounding box appears. Note: If you don't see a bounding box, you entered the text freely and must manually change the line breaks. 4 Position the pointer over a selection handle. When it changes to a double-headed arrow, drag the handle to resize the bounding box. The text reflows within the box. Resizing a text bounding box with overflowed text Important: Be sure to use a text tool when resizing the text block. If you drag a bounding box handle using a selection tool, it scales the text as if it were an object and the text does not reflow. Select text Before you can format or change type, you must select it. To change a range of characters, a word, or paragraph within a text block, you select the text using the Text tool. You use the Direct Select tool or the text layer in the Layers panel to select the entire block of text. You can drag, scale, rotate, align, and distribute a text block as you would to transform any other object in the menu. See also "Character panel overview" on page 79 Select individual characters, words, or paragraphs 1 Open the menu that you want to edit. 2 Select a text tool from the Tools panel, and do one of the following: • Drag-select the type. (Shift-click to extend or reduce an existing selection.) • Double-click a word to select it. • To select one word to the right, click an insertion point and press Shift+Ctrl+Right Arrow (Windows) or Shift+Command+Right Arrow (Mac OS). • To select one word to the left, click an insertion point and press Shift+Ctrl+Left Arrow (Windows) or Shift+Command+Left Arrow (Mac OS). • To select just the line, triple-click a line within a paragraph. • To select the entire paragraph, quadruple-click within a paragraph. • To select the previous paragraph, click an insertion point at the beginning of a paragraph, and press Shift+Ctrl+Up Arrow (Windows) or Shift+Command+Up Arrow (Mac OS). • To select the next paragraph, click an insertion point at the end of a paragraph, and press Shift+Ctrl+Down Arrow (Windows) twice or Shift+Command+Down Arrow (Mac OS) twice.

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ENCORE CS3
User Guide
84
The text bounding box appears.
Note:
If you don’t see a bounding box, you entered the text freely and must manually change the line breaks.
4
Position the pointer over a selection handle. When it changes to a double-headed arrow, drag the handle to resize
the bounding box. The text reflows within the box.
Resizing a text bounding box with overflowed text
Important:
Be sure to use a text tool when resizing the text block. If you drag a bounding box handle using a selection
tool, it scales the text as if it were an object and the text does not reflow.
Select text
Before you can format or change type, you must select it. To change a range of characters, a word, or paragraph within
a text block, you select the text using the Text tool. You use the Direct Select tool or the text layer in the Layers panel
to select the entire block of text.
You can drag, scale, rotate, align, and distribute a text block as you would to transform any other object in the menu.
See also
“Character panel overview” on page 79
Select individual characters, words, or paragraphs
1
Open the menu that you want to edit.
2
Select a text tool from the Tools panel, and do one of the following:
Drag-select the type. (Shift-click to extend or reduce an existing selection.)
Double-click a word to select it.
To select one word to the right, click an insertion point and press Shift+Ctrl+Right Arrow (Windows) or
Shift+Command+Right Arrow (Mac OS).
To select one word to the left, click an insertion point and press Shift+Ctrl+Left Arrow (Windows) or
Shift+Command+Left Arrow (Mac OS).
To select just the line, triple-click a line within a paragraph.
To select the entire paragraph, quadruple-click within a paragraph.
To select the previous paragraph, click an insertion point at the beginning of a paragraph, and press Shift+Ctrl+Up
Arrow (Windows) or Shift+Command+Up Arrow (Mac OS).
To select the next paragraph, click an insertion point at the end of a paragraph, and press Shift+Ctrl+Down Arrow
(Windows) twice or Shift+Command+Down Arrow (Mac OS) twice.