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Chapter 3 More Skills 11 Insert Text Boxes
A text box is a movable, resizable container for text or graphics.
▶ Text boxes are useful because they can give a different orientation for document text
and can be placed anywhere in the document.
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To complete this document, you will need the following file:
■ wrd03_MS11Run
You will save your document as:
■ Last_First_wrd03_MS11Run
1. Start
Word 2013. Open the student data file wrd03_MS11Run, and then save the file
in your Word Chapter 3 folder as Last_First_wrd03_MS11Run Add the FileName
field to the footer.
2. Press Ctrl + End to move to the bottom of the document. If your rulers do not display,
on the View tab, in the Show group, select the Ruler check box.
3. Click the Insert tab. In the Text group, click the Text Box button, and then below the
Text Box gallery, click Draw Text Box. Move the
pointer to about 7.5 inches on the
vertical ruler and 0 inches on the horizontal ruler. Drag down and to the right to
position the
pointer at approximately 8.25 inches on the vertical ruler and
3.25 inches on the horizontal ruler, and then release the mouse button. Compare your
screen with Figure 1.
A text box is inserted, a Format contextual tab is added to the Ribbon, and the insertion point
­displays inside the new text box.
Drawing Tools
Format tab
Text box
Figure 1
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4. Click
the Page Layout tab, and then in the Paragraph group, click the After down
spin arrow two times to change the spacing after to 0 pt.
5. Type the following three paragraphs in the text box, pressing Enter following the first
two paragraphs.
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6. In the text box, select all three paragraphs of text, and then on the Home tab, in the
Paragraph group, click the Bullets button
. In the Paragraph group, click the
Decrease Indent button .
7. On the Format tab, in the Size group, use the Height box to set the text box height to
0.8", and use the Width box to set the text box width to 3.5". Compare your screen
with Figure 2.
Height and
Width boxes
Formatted
text
Figure 2
8. On
the Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click the Shape Effects button, and
then point to Shadow. Under Outer, click the first style—Offset Diagonal Bottom
Right.
9. With the text box still selected, on the Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click the
Shape Fill button, and then click the last color in the third row—Green, Accent 6,
Lighter 60%.
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10.
Move the pointer over any border to display the
pointer, and then drag the box so
that it is about 1 inch below the tabbed list and centered. When the alignment guide
indicates the text box is centered, as shown in Figure 3, release the left mouse button.
Shape Fill
button
Approximately
1 inch
of space
Alignment
guide
Figure 3
11.
Save
the document, and then Close
your instructor.
Word. Submit your work as directed by
You have completed More Skills 11
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