Check Spelling - Adobe 38039336 - Flash CS3 Professional User Manual

Set dynamic and input text options
1 Click in an existing dynamic text field.
In the Property inspector, make sure Dynamic or Input is displayed in the pop-up menu.
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Enter an instance name for the text field.
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4 Specify the height, width, and location of text.
Select the font and style.
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6 In the Line Type box, specify one of the following options:
Displays the text in multiple lines.
Multiline
Displays the text as one line.
Single line
Displays text in multiple lines that break only if the last character is a breaking character, such as
Multiline No Wrap
Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).
To enable users to select dynamic text, click Selectable
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the dynamic text.
To preserve rich text formatting (such as fonts and hyperlinks) with the appropriate HTML tags, click Render Text
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As HTML .
To display a black border and white background for the text field, click Show Border
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(Optional) In the Var box, enter the variable name for the text field. (Use this option only when authoring for
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Macromedia Flash Player 5 from Adobe or earlier.)
Beginning with Macromedia Flash MX (version 6), you assign the text field an instance name using the Property
inspector. Although you can use the variable name method with dynamic text fields for backwards compatibility to
Macromedia Flash 5 and earlier versions, Adobe doesn't recommend this, because you can't control other text field
properties, or apply style sheet settings.
Click Embed for embedded font outline options:
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Specifies that no fonts be embedded.
Don't embed
Click Auto Fill to embed all of the characters from the selected text field.
Auto fill
Set preferences for vertical text
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh) and click the Editing tab in the Prefer-
ences dialog box.
Under Vertical Text, set any of these options:
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Automatically gives new text fields vertical orientation.
Default Text Orientation
Makes lines of vertical text fill the page from right to left.
Right to Left Text Flow
Prevents kerning from being applied to vertical text. (Kerning remains enabled for horizontal text.)
No Kerning

Check spelling

You can check spelling in text throughout your Flash document. You can also customize the spell checker.
Use the spell checker
Select Text > Check Spelling to view the Check Spelling dialog box.
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. Deselect this option to prevent users from selecting
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