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Text Boxes are handy for situations where you want to add text in a document in a position that isolates it from the rest of the text on the page. Microsoft Word comes with a series of preformatted Text Boxes that you can use to quick start creating a Text Box. For example, choose Insert and then Text Box. And here are a series of preformatted Text Boxes that you can use in your documents. If you're using a Cover Page and-or Header or Footer styles in your document, you might want to match your Text Box style to the style that you're using. Alternatively, you can choose any Text Box that you like the look of. Add your text to it and then format it to match the color of the remainder of the document. I'm going to select this option here. It's Braces Quote 1, so I'll click it and it's immediately inserted in the document. I could type my text inside the Text Box but I'm actually going to create it as a pull quote, so I'm going to select and copy some text from inside my document. I'll right-click and choose Copy. Click inside the Text Box and choose Paste. I'm going to select the text here and just make sure I've got all of it selected and I'm going to format it with a white font and a larger font size so that we can read it. Text Boxes can have their formatting changed, so I'll select it and choose Drawing Tools, Format Tab and I can change its Fill style, for example and make it a different color. I like that color there, so I'll select that for my Text Box. You can also position your Text Box on the page using Drawing Tools, Format Tab and the Arrange options. You can choose Wrap Text to wrap text around it, or just choose Position to position it where you want it on the page with the text wrapping already taken care of. So, I'm going to put my Text Box there. Now, in addition to creating Text Boxes using Word's preformatted styles, you can also create your own Custom Text Box. To see this at work, let's choose Insert and then Text Box and I'm going to select Draw Text Box. As you saw when we created a drawing, we can create our own Text Box by just dragging these crosshair cursors into the document. And now I can type my text into the box and select it and then format it. I can choose one of the Text Effects or I could just format it as I want it to look. I think I'll choose a Text Effect. And I know I need it about 60 points high so I'm just going to select that as the Type Size. Now, I haven't got my Text Box sized very well right now and that's for a very good reason because what I want to do is to put this Text Box down the side of the page. Firstly, I need to rotate the text in it and you can do that inside a Text Box with Drawing Tools, Format Tab and this time I'm going to select Text Direction and I get a choice of three directions: Horizontal is what I'm using at the moment, or I can rotate my text 90 degrees so it points down the page, or so it points up the page. I'm going to select this Rotate All Text 270 degrees option. And now the text is rotated inside the Text Box and you can see why I wasn't really too worried about what shape the Text Box was because whatever it was going to be was going to be incorrect anyway, so I'm just going to position my page where I can see it and now size my Text Box to fit my text. Now my Text Box has a border around it and it also has a white fill. You can see that we're not seeing the text behind this Text Box, so I can make changes to that really easily. I'm going to select the Text Box and from the Drawing Tools, Format Tab I'm going to select this option which is the Outline Style and I'm going to set it to No Outline so there is no border around the Text Box. We're seeing a border right now because it's selected but as soon as I click away from it the border disappears. And now I want to change its Fill and here the Fill Option here and I want to set it to No Fill, which means it's transparent, so we can see the text behind it, as you can see there now. So, there are two of the types of Text Boxes that you can create. You can create your own Custom Text Box and then add all sorts of borders and fills to it, or remove the borders and remove the fills from it so that it looks more like just text placed on the page, or you can use some of Word's already preformatted Text Boxes to provide an attractive looking Text Box or pull out quote on your page.