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sometimes you want to add text at a
specific location on the page but your
layout well no value putting the text
inside a text box will give you the
freedom to move it wherever you want to
create a text box go to the insert tab
then click text box there are several
built-in styles to choose from but you
could always go with a plain text box
and add formatting yourself to do this
click draw text box then click and drag
roughly where you want your text box to
go
and now you can type whatever you want
whenever you create a text box the
format tab will appear which gives you
various options to change the overall
appearance of the text box as well as
the formatting for the text inside you
can use these options along with the
formatting options on the Home tab to
get the text to look exactly the way you
want in this example I'm going to make
several different changes we'll start by
clicking the edge of the text box to
select it
then aligning the tags to the middle
next we'll go to the Home tab and
increase the font size to make it easier
to read
you can also change the font itself if
you want something other than the
default
finally I'm going to align the text to
the center of the text box to give it a
nice clean appearance I'm also going to
remove the paragraph spacing because
that can have an effect on your vertical
alignment it helps to think of text
boxes that's just another type of shape
in word that means you can easily give
them a new look by changing the fill
color removing the outline or adding an
effect just go back to the format tab
then look to all the options in the
shape Styles group
you can also change the shape of a
textbox using the Edit shape command
here
let's try a circle instead of the
default square
to resize a text box click and drag the
sizing handles on the sides or the
corners of the shape
to move it just place your cursor on the
edge then click and drag it wherever you
want
now that you know the basics of how they
work take some time to think about how
text boxes might fit into your documents