![]() ![]() But all this really does is rotate your text box 90° clockwise (it actually does just what it shows in the icon). You think, “Oh perfect! That’s just what I need.” So you click it. You hunt around in the Text Styles Panel and find this icon to choose horizontal or vertical text: Let’s say you want your letters to read top to bottom, not across, on your design. You can make your words go vertically in the text box and you can even make them read backwards. Text Myth #18 “Your letters can only go horizontally and forward in the text box” I’ll teach you that in our next lesson in this series. How do you get back into Text Edit mode after you’ve clicked off the text box? Ah, my friend, you’re getting ahead of me. How would you do that? Any time you hit Enter (a hard return for those of us who grew up using a typewriter), the cursor goes to the next line to start. Let’s say you want to allow more words on a lower line than an upper line. Or, to allow more words onto the lines, pull it out farther. In order to force the words to the next line, you can pull in that blue bar that’s on the right side. A control point on the lower left for Text on Path (more on that below).A blue bar at the right side of the box.A flashing blue cursor at the spot where you’re typing. ![]() In this mode, you can work with the text specifically rather than the text box as a whole. Text Edit mode is what it looks like when you’re first typing. You’ll never be able to make more words fit on a line or force them to a new line. If you try to change the size here you just shrink or expand the size of the letters, because Selection mode is also Sizing mode.
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