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Flash Tip: Breaking Apart Text

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Introduction

When you create a block of text in Flash, once you've exited the editing area the block of text is usually treated as a single unit--as depicted by the blue bounding box surrounding the words, flippant text aside. However, you can break the text apart into individual letters that can be moved about or edited individually.
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