I have borrowed (stolen) a beautiful heading from Cobalt Sky, shown on his demo file Portal Range Finder (can be downloaded from his website). This text consists of three overlapping text fields. I want to use this heading on each form view throughout my designs. It appears I need to edit the text on all three independently and the only way I can do that is to split them and move them a bit apart. However, after changing the text, I can't realign them in the exact same sequence. Is there an easy way to accomplish this, or a system on stacking & aligning them to speed up my theft?

Thanks for the compliment - glad you like the effect. It's a technique that is not too difficult when you get used to doing it.

To align multiple items in a stack, you'll need to get familiar with the "Bring Forward", "Send Backward" and "Alignment..." commands from the arrange menu. There are keyboard commands for all those functions (though I won't cite them here because they differ between platforms and versions, you can get quite efficient at it.

Then the other thing you need to know is that you can 'nudge' a selected object by one pixel in any direction using the arrow keys.

So - if you align two copies of the same thing using the align command, then select the front one and send it to the back (it will stay selected) you can then use the arrow keys to nudge it to the appropriate offset position.

So - if you align two copies of the same thing using the align command, then select the front one and send it to the back (it will stay selected) you can then use the arrow keys to nudge it to the appropriate offset position.

That's the part I couldn't get to work. How to grab and move the back object! When trying to align and nudge three images, I couldn't move the correct one! Bless ya!