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Insert a text box

Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003

On the Drawing toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), click Text Box .
Click or drag in your document where you want to insert the text box (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.).

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You can use the options on the Drawing toolbar to enhance a text box — for example, to change the fill color — just as you can with any other drawing object.

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