This means that your editing area can be much smaller than you might expect. However, even though the AutoShape itself can be irregular, the area in which you can edit text is still rectangular, fitting entirely inside the AutoShape. An AutoShape, formatted and converted into a text box, displaying text.įrom here, you can use your shape like any other text box. Word displays an insertion point inside it (see Figure 16.12), and you can type your text. Right-click the shape to display its shortcut menu. Your mouse pointer changes to a crosshair drag the shape to the size and proportions you want. Follow these steps:Ĭlick the Drawing button on the Standard toolbar (or choose View, Toolbars, Drawing) to display the Drawing toolbar.Ĭlick A utoShapes on the Drawing toolbar and select the AutoShape you would like to insert. You can easily transform any of these to a text box (except for lines and arrows, which lack an inside area where text could be entered). As you learned in Chapter 14, Word provides more than 100 AutoShapes that enable you to include practically any shape in your document, from flowchart symbols to starbursts to cartoon-style callouts. Word text boxes aren't limited to rectangles. Insert a text box, as described in the preceding section. If you want to create an index or table of contents entry in a text box, use a frame instead.īecause frames are rarely used, there is no built-in menu command for creating them.
Word also ignores certain fields if they are placed in a text box these fields are recognized if they are placed in a frame instead. You want to insert certain fields, including AUTONUM, AUTONUMLGL, and AUTONUMOUT (used for numbering lists and paragraphs in legal documents). You want to insert text or graphics that contain comments or refer to footnotes or endnotes. Although the names are identical, the concepts are completely different.) Use a frame if (These frames should not be confused with Web frames, which you can use to structure Web pages. Although they still exist in Word 2003, they are rarely used. Word largely abandoned frames several years ago.
Many of the tasks now performed by text boxes were performed by frames. If you get a text box formatted perfectly and want to use it as a pattern for others you create, right-click to select it and choose Set AutoShape Defaults. Using text boxes can add a bit of extra work because you have to worry about how they're positioned and formatted.
If you want your text box to appear outside the Drawing Canvas, click outside it the canvas will disappear. If you want your text box to appear within the Drawing Canvas, click inside the Drawing Canvas. Unless you have turned off the Drawing Canvas, Word also inserts a Drawing Canvas containing the text "Create your drawing here."Ĭlick where you want the upper-left corner of your text box to appear. Your pointer becomes a small crosshair, and Word switches to Print Layout view (if you aren't already in that view). To insert a text box, follow these steps:Ĭhoose Insert, Te xt Box. More information on tables can be found in Chapter 12. This is a valuable alternative whenever you have a multiple-column document and you need to call attention to information that is tightly structured, such as a row-and-column set of names, products, or financial results. Because it's also possible to wrap text around tables, you can sometimes use tables rather than text boxes for sidebars and similar applications.
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