Intermediate Microsoft Word Training
Technology 4
Summer 2007
Nebo Elementary School
Instructor: Mr. Michaud

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Text Boxes:

We covered these in Tech 1.  For Review:  A Text Box is a graphic where you can place text in a floating box or shape anywhere on the page independent of the main body of text data.  Text Boxes hold the text like a picture or graphic and act like a "mini" Word Page. 

Text Boxes are used for:

Word Help:  Think of your word document as having two "streams" of data. 

One stream is the main body of text.  (Sentences, Paragraphs)  This stream runs through the "center" document and usually holds the main points of your communication. 

The second "stream" would be the pictures, Text Boxes, Tables, and other "floating" objects that are placed around the main body text.  These objects illustrate or highlight specific points about your main ideas in the main body.





Text Box Exercise:

1. Open Microsoft Word and type the following short paragraph:

This paragraph here represents the “main” body text in a word document.  It is here where the user types sentences and paragraphs.  The computer program by default will wrap the text according to the borders and mark the ends of the paragraphs when you hit enter.

2. Click on the "Text Box" Tool:
3. Draw a text box (Left Click and drag a rectangle in the middle of the page)
4. Type "This is a text box!" in the box.

5. Left click and drag your text box about the screen.
6. Left click on the text box and select "View-Toolbars-Drawing" from the menu bar.

7.  Click the "Text Wrapping" Tool and experiment with the different options. Notice how the Text Box placement changes the main body of the text.

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