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the insertion point within the selected callout shape, thus enabling you to then enter the text of the callout. After you finish entering the text, click somewhere outside the shape to deselect the callout. (See the “Adding text boxes” section that follows for information on how to edit and format the callout text.)
Adding text boxes
Text boxes are special graphic objects that combine text with a rectangular graphic object. They’re great for calling attention to significant trends or special features in the charts that you create. (See Book V, Chapter 1, for details.)
To create a text box, click the Text Box command button in the Text group on the Ribbon’s Insert tab or press Alt+NX. Your mouse or Touch pointer’s cursor then appears as a thin vertical line with a short horizontal line cross- ing near the bottom. You can then drag this pointer to draw the outline of the new text box. As soon as you release the mouse button or remove your finger or stylus from the touchscreen, Excel draws the text box and places the standard insertion point in the upper-left corner of the box.
You can then start typing the text that you want displayed in the text box. When the text that you type reaches the right edge of the text box, Excel automatically starts a new line. If you reach the end of the text box and keep typing, Excel then scrolls the text up, and you then have to resize the text box to display all the text that you’ve entered. If you want to break a line before it reaches the right edge of the text box, press the Enter key. When you finish entering the text, click anywhere on the screen outside the text box to deselect it.
Keep in mind that although text boxes are similar to cell Comments in that they also display the text that you enter in a rectangular box, they do differ from Comments in that text boxes are not attached to particular cells and are always displayed in the worksheet. (Comments show only when you position the mouse pointer over the cell or select the comment with the Reviewing toolbar — see Book IV, Chapter 3, for details.)
Note that text boxes differ somewhat from other graphic objects that you add to the worksheet. Unlike other graphic objects in Excel, text boxes display two different border patterns when you select them: A dotted-line pattern is displayed when you click inside the text box, thus enabling you to format and edit the text, and a solid-line pattern is displayed when you click the border of the text box or start dragging the box to reposition it, thus indicating that you can format and edit the box itself.