You’d like to add some animation excitement to the static page. Perhaps you have a web page already created in an HTML editor or some other web-building tool. This process maintains some of the major formatting, such as paragraph breaks. It won’t be formatted exactly as it was originally, but the text will be there. In that case, you can copy the text in your word processor, and then in Animate create a text box and press Ctrl+V (Command-V) to paste it into your project.

If you’re working with large blocks of text, you may have already worked up a draft in a word processor or some other source. When you’re done, you can close the text window by pressing Esc or clicking the X button in the upper-right corner. If you want to create multiple paragraphs, just press Enter (Return) as you would in your word processor. Try the phrase “ON the EDGE.” The text you enter appears on the stage, as shown in Figure 1. Initially, you don’t have to worry too much about positioning or sizing the text box. In the Tools palette, click the big T (or use the shortcut key T), and then in your document, click and drag to create a text box. There are three ways to add text to your Animate project:

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