Changing Text in Flash

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Opening FLA File
Changing Text in Flash
Assigning Links in Flash
Changing Images in Flash
Publishing Your Flash Movie
About SWF File Format
Installing Fonts

Changing Text in Flash

To fit a Flash header your company needs you have to change the company name, company slogan and button texts.

It�s quite easy. So let�s do it step by step.

First of all, you should open your FLA file from the web design template package in Macromedia Flash. The previous chapter contains a quick guide about this question.

Now you should locate the text that you want to change. There are two ways of doing that.

The first way is to access it from the timeline. After you�ve opened the FLA file in Macromedia Flash, move the red timeline slider and watch the animation process. When you see text that needs to be modified, stop the timeline slider. Choose Selection Tool from the tools panel or call this tool by pressing the �V� hotkey. Double click this text until you get a type cursor in it. Then just type your own text instead of the original one.

Edit Text

But some of the Flash headers have complicated structure to create powerful animation effects. So it will be hard to access symbols containing text from the timeline. The easiest and most reliable way to locate elements in Flash is to use the symbols library.

To open the symbols library you can use �Ctrl + L� hotkey or choose Window/Library� from the top menu

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Browse the symbols library to find a symbol containing text you want to modify. You can see a symbol preview in the preview window at the top of the symbols library panel. Actually, all symbols that contain text have appropriate names such as �Company Name� or �About Us�. If you are unable to see the text for some reason, try to change the movie background to non white. White text written on a white background is invisible. To do this, choose Modify/Document� from the top menu and change background color in the popup window.

When you have found the symbol containing text that you want to change, double click the symbol�s icon in order to show the text symbol in the main workspace window. Then just double click text with Selection Tool or single click it with Text Tool (hotkey �T�) to edit the text.

While editing text in Macromedia Flash, you have a wide choice of attributes that you are able to modify. All options are accessible from the properties panel at the bottom of the Macromedia Flash workspace. If you can�t see this panel for any reason, you can open it by pressing the �Ctrl + F3� hotkey.

Text Properties

To modify text color or font size just select text using Text Tool and go to Properties Panel to change the appropriate option. You can find font family and size dropdowns, the color select box and align icons there. Modify any of those options and the change will be updated to the selected text.

When you have finished editing the text block, press the �Esc� key to quit editing mode. Now you can repeat the operations described above to edit other text blocks of your Flash header.

After you�ve made all appropriate changes, you should publish your Flash movie to SWF file and update it to your web design template. You can find instructions about this in Publishing your flash movie section.