If it's a text action, you should have some text on the canvas, just in case. But usually there will be a pop-up box that comes up as soon as you run the action, telling you to make a certain color text on a certain color background, or something like that. Click the stop button on that box, insert the text in the font that you want, and then click the Play button again to resume the action.
---Skorpion
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