break apart in illustrator?

[_murat_]

Is there any option in illustrator like corel's "break apart" to seperate a text into words or letters?
How can we do it in illustrator?
Thanks..

[CarlosCanto]

...basically same thing lightboxhero said 3 years ago in post # 9

[brienarnold]

NOT the best way since it's not editable as text anymore. never outline in the ai file. I hate those people.

Flatten transparency is the best way. Then you can convert back to point type if needed by double clicking the open circle on the left of the text box to turn it back to a solid circle. Point type doesn't create weird line breaks when the size is manipulated, retaining the point size. Area type, the original form, will make the size editable when the box is manipulated.

[lmm91293]

Hey I came across this when searching for the answer myself.  I copied the list of text (which, in my case, had each word on its own line) and I copied it into Microsoft Excel.  Then I pasted into Illustrator normally and each word was it's own piece of text.  The only thing I had to do was remove the lines outside the words, using the "group" selection tool with the "+" by the arrow.  No plugin or script necessary.

[marisa_20297955]

This did the trick! I wanted to separate a few lines of text inside a single text box, this resolved it without converting the text to curves.

[ahmad_sadaat]

Select the text using "Selection Tool" and then "Right click" on the text then select the option "Create Outlines". This will break the the text in to individual Alphabets and outline them. Then Select the alphabet using the "Direct Selection Tool" by clicking the desired alphabet in the middle to select the whole and made modification as per your requirements!

Cheers!

[John Mensinger]

Amazingly elliptical thread.

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[Monika Gause]

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Match All the features that Corel Has But Illustrator Dont Have

Give User more freedom. Thanks

Please detail the functionality you would like to have in Illustrator over there: http://illustrator.uservoice.com

To even be considered, you really should describe as detailed as possible what you want to have, in which way it should work and how this would help you in your workflows.

People can vote on the features. To gather more votes, this needs to be clear, because not everyone knows CorelDraw, but might need the feature as well.

[ScooterD76]

Flash has a break apart function as well.

Im with team " Create outlines, Ungroup "

[jane-e]

(murat)  wrote

Is there any option in illustrator like corel's "break apart" to seperate a text into words or letters?
How can we do it in illustrator?

Although this thread is almost ten years old, I am going to answer "no" after reading how "Break Apart" works in CorelDRAW.

This is copied from a thread on the CorelDRAW community. Also, please note that CorelDRAW is the correct spelling of the software.

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Break Apart (Ctrl+K) works like this with text:

First time it breaks paragraphs apart (Paragraph text only).
Next time it breaks lines apart.
Again, and words will be sepearated,
and finally it breaks into separate characters.

Note that you can only select one text object and use Ctrl+K, so if you want to break up several separated lines to words, you have to do it one by one.

If you just want to get rid of a single character in a text I suggest you use the text tool and delete that character instead. Create a copy first and then delete all the other characters from that copy, if you want to keep it all but have one single character separated without breaking up the rest.

Problem with break apart letters and lines - CorelDRAW X4 - CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 - CorelDRAW ...

[elysianwebdesign]

For latest Adobe Illustrator as of June 2019

1. Got to selection tool (v)

2. Click the text you are looking to separate into letter

3. Click the dropdown menu for "type"

4. Click create outlines

5. Voila! You have now separated your word into individual selectable letters in a group

[yellowdin]

True, but it transform the text into vectors. We can no longer edit the text.