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Formatting a text box
After you’ve added a text box, you can format its text by changing the font, font size, font style, and alignment of the text (including its orientation); you can also format the text box by changing its background color and line style, object positioning properties, and — perhaps most important of all — its text margins.
To change the formatting of all the text entered in a text box, click its TextBox name in the Selection and Visibility task pane or click its graphic object in the worksheet until the solid outline appears around the box, and then click the appropriate command buttons in the Font and Alignment groups on the Ribbon’s Home tab. Choose from the following options:
✦ Font or Font Size drop-down list buttons and the Increase Font Size and Decrease Font Size command buttons to change the font or font size of the text. Use Live Preview to see how the new font and font size looks
in the text box.
✦ Bold, Italic, or Underline command buttons to add these attributes to the text in the text box.
✦ Font Color drop-down list button to apply a new color to the text in the text box.
✦ Align Text Left, Center, or Align Text Right command buttons to change the horizontal alignment of the text in regard to the left and right edges of the text box.
✦ Top Align, Middle Align, or Bottom Align command buttons to change the vertical alignment of the text in regard to the top and bottom edges of the text box.
✦ Increase Indent or Decrease Indent command buttons to indent text within the box’s borders or remove previous indenting.
✦ Orientation command button to modify the orientation of the text in the text box by selecting the Vertical Text, Rotate Text Up, or the Rotate Text Down option.
To change the formatting of some of the text in a text box, click the insertion point in the text box and select the text before you use one of these com- mand buttons to modify its appearance.
To change the formatting of the text box itself, click its TextBox name in the Selection and Visibility task pane (opened by clicking the Selection Pane button on the Drawing Tools Format tab) or click its graphic object in the worksheet until the solid outline appears around the box, then click the
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Adding Graphic Objects