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Sometimes, you may want to add text to a
specific location on the page but your layout won't allow it.

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Putting the text inside a text box will
give you the freedom to move it wherever you want.

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To create a text box, go to the Insert tab
then click Text Box.

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There are several built-in options to
choose from but you could always go with

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the plain text box and add formatting
yourself. To do this, click Draw Text Box

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then click and drag roughly where you
want your text box to go.

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Now you can type whatever you want.

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Whenever you create a textbox, the Format tab will appear which gives you various

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options to change the overall appearance
of the text box, as well as the

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formatting for the text inside. You can
use these options, along with the

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formatting options on the Home tab, to
get the text to look exactly the way you want.

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In this example I'm going to make
several different changes.

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We'll start by clicking the edge of the
text box to select it,

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then aligning the text to the middle.

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Next, we'll go to the Home tab

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and increase the font size to make it
easier to read.

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You can also change the font itself if
you want something other than the default.

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Finally I'm going to align the text to the
center of the text box to give it a nice,

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clean appearance. I'm also going to
remove the paragraph spacing because

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that can have an effect on your vertical
alignment.

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it helps to think of textboxes as just
another type of shape in Word. That means

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you can easily give them a new look by
changing the fill color, removing the

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outline, or adding an effect.

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Just go back to the Format tab, then
look to all the options in the Shape Styles group.

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You can also change the shape of a text
box using the Edit Shape command here.

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Let's try a circle instead of the default
square.

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To resize a text box, click and drag the sizing handles on the sides or the corners of the shape.

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To move it ,just put your cursor on the
edge, then click and drag it wherever you want.

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Now that you know the basics of how they work, take some time to think about how

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text boxes might fit into your documents.