4 Ways To Insert a Text Box In Google Docs

4 Ways To Insert a Text Box In Google Docs. A text box is a great and effective way to visually organize your thoughts or highlight a set of text on a page. Text boxes can also make your document look more formal and professional, especially if you are sharing a document with colleagues.

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Google doesn’t make adding text fields to Google Docs as obvious as it does other word processing programs. Fortunately, there are some simple methods that you can use to insert a text box into Google Docs. Text boxes let you add text or images to them, and then move those boxes across, between, or within documents.

How to Insert a Text Box in Google Docs

There are at least two ways to add a text box to Google Docs. The main methods are using a drawing tool and using a single cell table, but each method offers a different layout and formatting options.

Insert a text box into Google Docs using the drawing tool

The drawing tool isn’t the easiest way to insert a text box into a document, but it’s still easy to use and lets you manipulate text boxes throughout the file.

With a drawing tool, you can upload a drawing as an image to Google Drive and add it to your document. You can also add various shapes, line styles, leaders, and arrows. It opens a dialog box in the document where you can create, edit, and format shapes and text boxes using the drawing tool commands.

To insert a text box using a drawing tool:

1. Open a document and click Insert> Picture, and then click New to create the text box.

2. Click the text box icon.

3. Create a text box by clicking and dragging in the drawing area, and then release the mouse button to display the text box. Add text and customize the text box to your liking, and when you’re done, click the blue Save & Close button in the upper-right corner of the drawing area.

How to use shapes to create and insert a text box in Google Docs

How to use shapes to create and insert a text box in Google Docs

You can add various shapes to your documents, such as rectangles, squares, leaders, flowchart shapes, and more. Google Docs allows you to add various shapes of text, like in a text box, and customize it by adding background colors or changing the width of the borderline.

1. Click Insert> Picture> New, and then click the Shapes command.

2. Again click Shapes to select the desired shape you want to use.

3. Click and drag in the drawing area to create the selected shape, and then release it. To add text to a shape, double-click anywhere on the shape and enter your text.

4. You can add more shapes, lines, arrows, leaders, or even equation symbols to the drawing area. When you’re done drawing, click Save & Close to insert it into your document. You can also resize the shape by clicking and dragging the resize handle to the desired size.

5. To modify a shape, select it and then click Modify in the options that appear. You can also delete a shape by pressing the Delete or Backspace key on your keyboard.

You can also customize the shape by clicking the formatting command you want, such as color, adding an image, adding lines, and more.

For shapes that overlap, you can move them to Bring Forward or Send Backward and get the order you want. To reposition text boxes or shapes, right-click the text box or shape in the Draw dialog box, hover over Order, and click to select an ordering option.

How to insert a text box in Google Docs using a single cell table

You can insert and edit a text box in Google Docs using one cell, one column, and a one-row spreadsheet. To do this, click Insert> Table, and then click one cell with one row and one column (1 × 1).

A single cell appears in the document. You can adjust the length and width of the text box to your desired size and then enter text into the cell.

You can customize the color, style, and size of the font to your liking if you want to highlight text or make your document look more professional.

How to insert images into a text box or shape in Google Docs

You can customize the text box or form in Google Docs by adding an image, or you can overlay text on the image if you want.

To insert an image into a text box or shape:

1. Click the text box or shape, and then click Modify to open the drawing tool.

2. Click the image icon in the menu.

3. Insert an image by uploading it from your computer, or you can add it by URL, from your albums, in Google Drive, or search in Google search. Click “Select” to insert the image.

4. To overlay text over an image or shape, you need a text box. Click the newly created text box and choose Edit from the menu below to return to the drawing area.

5. Again click the text box icon to select it, and then change the fill color to set the text box transparency. Click “Save” and “Close” to insert the text box into the image.

6. Again click the image again, choose Image Options from the top menu, and choose Wrap Text in the right pane.

7. Layer the image and text field by dragging and dropping them to the desired position.

To move an image in Google Docs, click on the image and change the mode to Text Wrap. Move the image into place using the scroll arrows on your keyboard. If you want to move the image in smaller increments, hold down the Shift key and use the scroll arrows to move.

Did you manage to create and insert a text box in Google Docs following the steps above? Share with us in the comments.

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