sometimes you may want to place some
text at a specific location on the page
and putting the text into a text box
gives you the freedom to easily move it
wherever you want to create a text box
go to the insert tab and then text box
there are a number of built-in text
boxes that have preset formatting but
you can also create a plain text box and
format it yourself click draw text box
and then in the document click and drag
to created
and now you can type whatever you want
and you can format it just like you
would with any other text
I'm going to change the font
and the font size
I want the text to be in the middle of
the text box so I'll align it to Center
I need it to be centered vertically as
well and before I do that I'm going to
remove the paragraph spacing because
that can actually throw off the
alignment now go to the format tab and
align text and then you can choose the
alignment type that you want
because this is in a text box we can
move it around by just clicking the edge
and dragging it wherever we want
textboxes are really just a type of
shape so you can add shape styles to
them and if you go to the left of the
shape styles there is the Edit shape
command and you can use this to change
the shape
you may need to resize it again after
you change the shape
another great thing about textboxes is
that they allow you to add effects to
the text inside them and this is called
word art I'd like to add an effect to
trivia night even though this isn't in a
text box right now we can convert it
into word art which will put it into its
own text box just go to the insert tab
and click word art
and then select a quick style
and this caused a lot of other things to
shift and that's because these objects
are trying to wrap around to the word
art so we just need to change the text
wrapping setting to in front of text
now that this is formatted as WordArt
it's inside its own text box so it's
that much easier to move everything
around now
I'm just putting these roughly where I
want them and I'll fine-tune them later
let's customize this word art a little
more select the text box and then in the
format tab you can change the colors and
effects and these commands are found in
the word art Styles group
I think I'll try a yellow fill
and a purple outline
and then I'll change the outline wait
finally I'll choose a text effect
these are pretty much the same types of
effects that you can add to shapes but
there's an extra one called transform
and this will actually change the shape
of the text I think I'll choose this one
and once you've added a transform effect
the text will automatically stretch to
fit the text box even if you resize it
you
now you probably don't want to use word
art in a more serious document such as a
resume but if you're just creating a fun
casual document like this flyer it can
really add a lot of energy like the
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