Text Box tab

The Text Box tab appears, under the label Text Box Tools, when you select a text box or click in one. It goes away when you select something else.

• Text has Text Fit, Text Direction, and Hyphenation. See Add and format text boxes.
• Alignment places text left, center, right, justified, or distributed, and at the top, middle, or bottom of the box. It also has Columns and Margins. See Add and format text boxes.
• Linking has Create Link, Break, Previous, and Next for flowing a story through several boxes. See Flow text between text boxes.
• Font repeats the font, size, and style tools from the Home tab. See Format text.
• Effects has Shadow, Outline, Emboss, Engrave, Text Fill, Text Outline, and Text Glow for the letters themselves. See Format text.
• Typography has Drop Cap and finer font features such as Number Style, Ligatures, Stylistic Sets, Swash, Stylistic Alternates, and True Small Caps. See Format text.
• Arrange controls text wrap, stacking order, grouping, alignment, and rotation of the box. See Move, align, group, and layer objects.
• Size sets the height and width of the box. See Move, align, group, and layer objects.

Related

• Add and format text boxes
• Flow text between text boxes
• Format text