Text Boxes | How to become an Expert of MS Word - Class 6 PDF Download

Introduction

Creating a Text Box

• Placing text inside of a text box helps focus the reader's eye on the page content. Newsletters, flyers, reports, announcements, school projects, and other types of publications often use Word's text box feature.
• Text boxes can be formatted with shadings, color, borders, and graphics, making for an impressive display of your Word skills.

To Create a Text Box:

• Click Insert on the menu bar.
• Select Text Box from the menu list.
• The mouse pointer becomes a crosshair .
• Place your insertion point where you want your text box.
• Left-click and drag the text box until it is the appropriate size. Release the left mouse button when ready.
• The text box will by default contain a white background color and a thin black border.

To Insert Text into a Text Box:

• Click once inside the text box.
• The box is selected, and a blinking insertion point appears inside the box.
• Begin typing.
• Format text—change the font, font size, style, etc.—in the usual manner. Remember to select text first.

Moving & Resizing Text Boxes- To Resize a Text Box

• Click once on one of the box's borders. The box is now highlighted.
  

• Sizing handles (small circles) appear. Hover the mouse pointer over any of the sizing handles until it turns into a diagonally pointing arrow.
  
• Click and drag the sizing handle until the box is the desired size.

To Move a Text Box:

• Click once on the text box's border.
• Hover your mouse pointer over the border until it becomes a crosshair with arrows.
• Using this crosshair, click and drag the box until it is in the desired location.
  

The Format Text Box Dialog Box

To use the Format Text Box dialog box:

• Double-click a text box border. The Format Text Box dialog box appears.

• Right-click the text box border and select Format Text Box. The Format Text Box dialog box appears.

To Access The Text Box Feature from The Drawing Toolbar:

• Click View on the menu bar.
• Select Toolbar and then Drawing from the cascading menu. The Drawing toolbar appears at the bottom of your document.
• Click the text box button . Don't confuse this button with the rectangle button. You cannot insert text using the rectangle button.

• The Format Text Box dialog box offers you several tabs to choose from:
  • Color and Lines: To fill a text box with color and define border colors, styles, and weight
  • Size: To define a specific size
  • Layout: To use text wrapping and alignment
  • Text Box: To set internal margins