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Textboxes When you're creating something like a flyer, brochure, postcard, or business cards, you don't just type in a document like you do for most other things. Instead, you create text boxes to enter in text. You can also insert text boxes into reports and articles to help make certain text stand out. Text boxes can easily be moved, resized, and repositioned (along with the text inside them) to make creating a layout easy. To create a textbox, go to the Insert tab and find the Text Box button in the Text group. As you can see, there are a lot of built-in textboxes that you can use. However, to show you how to fully use text boxes, we're going to create our own by selecting Draw Text box. When you do that, your cursor will turn into a plus sign. Simply drag the text box onto the document. Using the Grid and Rulers Now that we have our text boxes on the page, we want to line them up and position them correctly. To do this, we're going to go to the View tab and make sure both Ruler and Grid are checked in the Show group.

Our layout now looks like this: We use the grid to line up our text boxes. We use the ruler to make sure the text boxes are the measurements we want. We have two text boxes that need to be the same, so we'll use the ruler to make sure they are. As you can see, we have a text box selected. To the left, we can see a ruler that shows its height. We can also double click anywhere in a text box to bring up the drawing tools Format menu in the Ribbon and change the width or height in the Size group. Formatting Textboxes Just as you can format text and tables, you can also format text boxes by adding a fill color, outline, or effects. To format a text box, double click on it.

Next, go to the Shape Styles group in the Drawing Tools Format tab. The Shape Style gallery has different themes that you can apply to a text box.

Or you can create you own by using the Shape Fill, Shape Outline, and Shape Effects tools. Use Shape Fill to add a fill color. Use Shape Outline to add an outline color. You can use Shape Effects in the same way that you use text effects. Our text boxes appear below. Move Text Boxes Forward or Back (Stacking Objects) Let's say we don't want the white background in the flyer we've created above. We can either add a page background, or we can draw another text box behind the ones we already have. This text box will cover most of the page and serve as background. First, draw the text box. As you can see, the new text box covers all of the elements we added to our flyer: If you are ever stacking text boxes in a design, you can always remove the fill color so the text box is transparent by going to the Drawing Tools Format tab. Click on the Shape Fill button, then select No Fill from the dropdown menu. Wondershare video editor for mac.

However, we want to add a fill color to this new text box, as we've already done below. We've also formatted it. Now, we're going to go to the Arrange group under the Drawing Tools Format tab. Click the Send Backward button. We can choose to send it backward, send it to the back, or send it behind the text. • If we choose Send Backward from the dropdown menu, it sends the new text box behind the last text box that we drew.