NewDeal Hot Tip 1523

[Hot Tips for...] General Use

Template Placeholders

QUESTION: How do I create a full sentence placeholder in a template, like the ones in the templates provided with the software, where you can double click to select the entire sentence?

ANSWER: When you type your sentence, the trick is to make the program think it is all one word. The way to do this is to place an x or some other character between all the words and change the text color for that character to white. Like this

Whenxthexcharacterxisxblackxthexsentencexlooksxlikexthis.
When the character is white the sentence looks like this.
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Last Modified 2 Mar 1999