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Creating text objects

When working with text in your Expression Design documents, it's helpful to think of each character (or glyph) as an individual closed path, and a word or sentence as a group of all those paths. Each character can have its own fill or stroke attributes. You can place text anywhere in your document, including inside a path (so that the path acts like a frame for the text) or so that it follows along a path. You can also convert your editable text to outlines (Bezier paths), though the text will no longer be editable.

To place text in your document, click the Text tool  from the Toolbox, and then click anywhere in your workspace. This places an insertion point at that position. Type the text (press ENTER to break to a new line) and when you are finished, switch to a different tool, Press CTRL+click anywhere in your document, or press ESC.

You can also paste text into Expression Design, but you cannot paste a long story — no more than 10,000 characters

Each block of text acts as a separate object on your page, which you can move, rotate, transform, apply effects to, and so on, just like any other graphic shape.