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Microsoft Word Help - AutoShapes
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What's on this page... Drawing Lines and Shapes Working with Text Boxes Locking Objects In Place Handling Objects That Overlap |
Working With Text Boxes
Microsoft Word help you to put text in a text box when you want it to stand out on the page. Text boxes can be shaded, filled with color, and given borders. What's more, you can move one around at will on the page until it lands in the right place.To put a text box in a document, follow these steps:
| 1. | Choose Insert from the menu bar. |
| 2. | Select Text Box, or click the Text Box
button from the Drawing toolbar. The mouse pointer turns into a cross hair. 
Text Box button |
| 3. | Click-and-drag to draw the text box. Lines show you how big it will be when you release the mouse button. |
| 4. | Release the mouse button. |
After you've inserted the text box, you can type text in it and call on all the formatting techniques in Word to boldface it, align it, or do what you will with it.
Microsoft Word help you to still change the text box, too, even after you place it.
Simply click on the text box in order to edit its text. Clicking a text box also makes its handles appear. Grab onto one of its handles and pull in any direction to change the size of the box.
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On the Text Box toolbar is a little toy called the Change Text Direction button. Click a text box and click this button to make the text in the text box change orientation. 
Change Text Direction ButtonMicrosoft Word help by making it easy! |
| See also... Drawing Lines & Shapes |
| Locking Objects | Handle Objects that Overlap |
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