Justifying text, but

I have entered a hundred words of text or so, but they all appear on one LONG line. The manual/help files show how to justify the text, but not how to limit the text box width and height.... A little help???

Make sure you have multiline and word wraps to ON in the properties for the editbox.
Of course I'm assuming you are using an editbox you didn't mention it. As a matter of fact you really didn't describe the problem very well.

The issue is that I do not see text box formatting options such as word wrap or multiline. Those options elude me. I clicked on Show Properties--nada. I appreciate the help.

You must not be using dynamic text then. If you aren't then you shouldn't have a problem as it shows the way you type it in to text object.
http://bretlanius.com/temp/dtext.jpg

Great-- today's final questions: I do not see how to: 1) see the text unless i preview 2) justify text-only left right center. Thank bro.

to answer number 1, you can only view it when either testing it, or playing it where you hosted it. You can't view it from the internal player...

Great. Anyone for helping on question #2? Thanks.

Answer to #2 :
Justify requires using flash 8 output and at this time can't be set using the gui. You'll have to use actionscript.

Thank you. Can you give me a quick step by step?

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Thank you. Can you give me a quick step by step?

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Experimenting some more I discovered actionscript isn't required.
If you set up the textfield, there are four options for alignment : left, center, right and a blank one. If you select the blank one and make sure you export flash 8 (file > export settings) it justifies the text.

AH! Very good. That works. What about compatibility? The first time I tried to view the swf, the program crashed. The NEXT time, it asked to install Flash 8. My concern is that viewers may have a little trouble if they do not have the lastest version. What are your thoughts sir?