in this lesson we're going to take a
look at text boxes which are a type of
object in templates we are given
existing sample text inside our text
boxes this text acts as a placeholder so
we can see the format of the document
this makes it so much easier to design
our own publication on our for sale
flyer here we're going to begin by
working with this text box we're going
to select it and we want to replace the
text that is already in there with our
own in order to do this we're going to
need to be able to see that text so what
we're going to have to do is zoom in and
we can do this by going to our standard
toolbar and choosing the drop-down zoom
arrow and let's set our zoom at about
seventy-five percent now we can also
zoom in by using zoom out and zoom in
icons that are also located on the
standard toolbar now what we need to do
in order to replace the existing text is
to select the text and we're going to
begin typing our own information since
we're trying to sell a boat here let's
go ahead and type some features for our
boat
19 feet long it's fiberglass it has a
2006 gas engine and it is in like new
condition a personal design tip when
dealing with text boxes would be not to
make the text too long you want to go
ahead and convey your information as
concisely as possible now we're going to
move over and work with our other text
boxes the name of our item will be the
flying eagle boat and we're going to be
asking eleven thousand dollars now you
can also see at the bottom of our page
we have some other text boxes but you
can fill those in on your own time later
if you'd like you can also change other
characteristics of your text box we can
go ahead and select this one you can
move rotate and resize your text box
just like any other object as you can
see we can rotate our text box we can
resize our text box and we can move our
text box in addition we can also change
the background of our text box we need
to make sure that it is selected and now
we're going to go up to our formatting
menu and we're going to choose the arrow
beside the fill icon now you see we can
choose no Phil we can choose from a
standard set of colors that are from our
current palette we can choose more fill
colors we can even choose fill effects
what we're going to do is go ahead and
choose a light green color from our
current palette
as you can see our text box is now light
green let's say we want to add some fill
effects to our text box let's go back to
the formatting menu we're going to
choose the down arrow by the fill I con
and we're going to choose fill effects
we are now in our fill effects dialog
box as you can see there are several
tabs at the top we're currently in the
gradient tab for gradient we can choose
one color or we can choose two colors
we're going to stick with the one color
you can see at the bottom the shading
styles we can have a horizontal shading
vertical diagonal up diagonal down from
the corner or from the center next we
can move on over to the texture tab you
can see we have various textures from
which to choose we can also take a look
at the pattern tab and see that it takes
our colors and makes patterns from those
colors for our text box let's go back to
the gradient tab and choose one of the
diagonal up gradients we're going to
choose this variant with the light color
in the upper left hand corner and we're
going to click on our ok button there
you see we have a nice Phil effect on
our text box you can spend a little time
on your own exploring any of the other
fill effects now that we've made our
changes we're going to need to zoom back
out to our original document so we can
see what we've done in order to do that
we're going to go up to the zoom box
we're going to type in our original
forty two percent and we have our
publication with some nice Phil effects
in our text box now that we've looked at
the basics of these text boxes you can
go ahead and take
some time on your own to explore the
other options