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  Text Question Driving Me Nuts!!!!!

  Posted by Michael Brodner on July 11, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  I’m creating a typography project and having to type out each word that is spoken in the audio I’m using. I want each word as it’s own layer.

  My question is, how the heck do I type one word and then type the next word on a different layer with a single shortcut click???? I’m having to go down into the timeline and click and then navigate to another tool only to navigate back to the text tool and type another word. It’s reeeeeeally annoying. Help!

  Stuart Elith replied 16 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Stuart Elith

  July 13, 2009 at 12:12 am

  A good option is :

  1) Type your word
  2) Press the numpad Enter (must be this one) to confirm the text
  3) Click to start your next word (puts it onto the next layer)

  There’s no changing of tools or heading back to the timeline for this. The text tool will stay selected after step 2 so it’s pretty quick.

  Sometimes I like to type out my whole sentence/phrase and then just cut all the words except for the first one, paste the rest, cut all but the first and continue. It’s repetitive but probably no more than typing each one, and it feels more streamlined to just focus on one thing at a time, but the difference is probably minimal!

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