How to edit text?

[Enzo954]

This might be a silly question, but how do you redo text once you've moved onto something else. For instance, I wrote some text and then later on decided that I wanted to edit it but it's not clickable for some reason. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make the text clickable to change it.

[DrewDale]

Welcome to the forum

Unfortunately once you have committed your text to a layer and then moved on, you cant re type it.
There is a plugin here Editable-text that may be of use for you to use in the future. 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

For the reason that text is not editable once committed to the canvas, we recommend you place your text on it's own layer.  If the text needs to be edited, the layer can be erased and the text retyped.

[akk]

Is there a way to identify what font one used in a previous layer? If I want to replicate it elsewhere, I hate to admit it, but often cannot remember what I used....ahem. Thanks.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

The font will remain selected for the duration of your Paint.NET session, or until you change it.  After that, no - excepting your ability to id the font by eye.
 

cannot remember what I used

 

This is the reason I recommend placing the font name, size and formatting options in the layer name  A layer name like Header Text @ Arial 33 Bold leaves you in no doubt how to recreate the text.

 

This thread is old, so I'll lock it.  If you have further questions, please start a new thread.