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Writing multiline text

Writing multiline text

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Writing multiline text

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In this video, we will create a multi-line text object. Open the architectural two sample file and pan over to the side to give yourself some room to write some text. Go up here, and before we jump into the multi-line text tool, let's make another single line text object. Click a start point somewhere over here and hit enter twice to accept the default height and rotation angle. I've already copied some text to the clipboard and I'm just going to paste that in here by pressing Control+V. I'll press enter once to go to the next line and once more to end the command. So, here we have two paragraphs, but because they're single-line text, obviously, the text just keeps going until the end of the paragraph. If I wanted this text to occupy a smaller area, it would really be a nightmare. I would have to go in here, double click, copy a certain amount of it, make a new text object, paste it in there, line up the text objects. It would just take me 20 minutes to arrange that, and I just want…

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