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Using editable text

Editable text lets users enter text on a Web page, customize a game, and so on. When text is editable, editing the text changes the text cast member and all the text in the sprites where the cast member appears.

You can make text editable and let users tab between editable sprites from the Property Inspector (see Setting text or field cast member properties) or from Lingo.

You can make a text sprite editable in only a certain range of frames in the Score.

To make a text sprite editable in a range of frames:

1 | Select a range of frames within a sprite.
| You can select an entire sprite, or Shift-Alt-click (Windows) or Shift-Option-click (Macintosh) to select frames within a sprite.
2 | Click the Text or Field tab of the Property Inspector using the Graphical view.
3 | Click Editable.

To control whether text is editable with Lingo:

Set the `editable` property. See `editable`.

To have Lingo specify whether pressing Tab opens the next sprite for editing:

Set the `autotab` property. See `autoTab`.