...text handling...

[mellow]

...ever try and place a paragraph as a text object on a slide...? ...it's impossible to navigate and hit the enter key at the same time to force the carriage return...this is a great program that needs better text handling before going off to do Flash or even AVI files...it's great for a few words but for more than 30 words, it's frustrating ...I realize not everyone would require so many words on a slide but PTE already has a text function...I say move it up a notch to allow paragraph handling with ease...this would help tremendously in producing our training material ...much thanks for a great program and a great forum...

[quietstorm]

mellow..

Are you trying to do this?

Screenshot

If so, just type and hit just your enter key to make a "new line" in your paragraph!

Once done, left click and while holding your left mouse button..drag it to where

you want the text to be!

Hope this helps

Bart

[nobeefstu]

mellow,

I find the Text Editbox a bit restrictive while working with a large amount of words due to its small window size.

However, have you tried loading the Text from a external file for your large text content ?

I find this approach much easier and quicker because I prepare in advance the Text in Notepad or other Office tools. Then just press the button Load Text File . Preparing the Text in advance is no different than preparing your Images in advance ... its just plan and preparation needed.

[mellow]

...Bart..thanks for the tip...still very cumbersome...

....nobeefstu...works OK but it's hard to judge the length of lines before you place them on the slide...could still end up with a lot of unecessary tweaking...all that's really needed is a "bounding box" for the text objects instead of spreading the lines past the edges of the monitor...

...anyway, thanks for the feedback...and best of the new year to you both...