one of the most basic skills you'll use
in publisher is adding text when working
with templates text boxes are already in
place with placeholder text in some
other lessons we discuss adding deleting
and formatting text on a template but
not how to insert a new text box since
we're not working with the template we
need to insert a text box before we
begin adding text into our publication
since text boxes are a type of object
there are several ways that we can
insert one into our document I need a
heading for my flyer so let's move our
clipart down and now we're ready to
insert a text box using the objects tool
bar will click on the text box button
and as we move our cursor to the
publication you'll notice that our
cursor turns into two crossed lines
we'll just left click the mouse and
while holding the button drag the mouse
down and over until our text box is the
desired size now release the mouse
button and our text box will appear
remember you can always resize and move
the text box later so don't worry if
it's not the perfect size you'll see
that the cursor is flashing inside the
text box which means that we can now
enter our text
whoa the text is really pretty small
within the text box and one way that we
can handle this is to select our text
and then we can come up and change our
font and our font size since this is a
heading let's make it really big that's
much better now let's go ahead and make
this text bold and go ahead and center
align it now that looks like a nice
title to deselect the text box click
outside the text box on another portion
of the publication I'd like to add some
additional information to my flyer so we
can also add a text box from the main
menu by selecting insert and then text
box and again our cursor turns into two
crossed lines will come down to our
publication and click our mouse and hold
the button as we drag down and over to
the desired size and then we release our
mouse button and you see we have our
text box now we know that if we start
typing right now the text will be pretty
small we can select the autofit option
auto fit is a really neat feature in
publisher that fits the text to the text
box it automatically shrinks or expands
the text to fit the size of the text box
the text is automatically resized
whenever the text box is resized in
order to turn auto fit on we need to go
up to the main menu and choose format
come down to autofit text and come over
and click on best fit now let's enter
our text
you can see how the text is
automatically fitted to the text box now
notice that when we resize the text box
our text is automatically resized to
deselect the text box click outside the
box on any other portion of the
publication I need to add a couple of
other text boxes and type in some
information about the piano lessons that
I want to include on my flyer will be
using this flyer in several other
publisher lessons so if you're creating
your own flyer along with me feel free
to add whatever text you think is needed
to make the flyer informative and
interesting