Text box - Formatting Tools

Quick reference

• 00:04 We're going to work a little more with text boxes.
• 00:07 I'm going to stay on the template called Trader News because it has
• 00:11 text boxes already in place.
• 00:13 And over on the left hand pane,
• 00:14 the page navigation pane, click on page 4 to go to the bottom page.
• 00:18 If you don't see your page navigation, please click on View, Page Navigation.
• 00:23 All right, here we go.
• 00:24 Let's go ahead and get started.
• 00:25 There's a handy text box already on this page, and
• 00:28 when I click on it I can see my Text Box Tools.
• 00:30 When I click Format, here's everything you can do with a text box.
• 00:34 Starting with Text Fit, Best Fit, Shrink to Fit,
• 00:37 Grow Text Box to Fit, Do Not Auto-fit.
• 00:39 It's all up to you what you wanna do.
• 00:41 It's your document.
• 00:43 Take a look at the Text Direction, actually tips it on it's side, or
• 00:46 tips it back.
• 00:47 Hyphenation, this allows us to split words with a dash to make them fit nicely
• 00:52 on the screen.
• 00:53 So notice this particular word, editorial,
• 00:55 has a dash at the end, because it's split to finish on the next line.
• 00:59 If I turned off hyphenation, that entire word would drop to the next line,
• 01:03 which would leave a jagged right edge as demonstrated right here.
• 01:07 All right, the next area is the Font Area.
• 01:11 Font style, size, and all the font tools.
• 01:15 You can find those also on the Right Click, on the Mini Bar.
• 01:17 Right over here.
• 01:19 And a little tip for you is any button that has the letter A means alphabet.
• 01:24 So alphabet small, alphabet big, alphabet change case, alphabet color.
• 01:28 So that's just a little tip for you.
• 01:30 The next section is Alignment.
• 01:31 Do you want this to align at the, let me scroll down, at the top of the box?
• 01:38 Maybe at the bottom of the box and center.
• 01:41 It's up to you.
• 01:42 You can just change it with a click of the button.
• 01:44 You can change how this whole thing aligns.
• 01:46 So keep that in mind.
• 01:47 It's kind of a handy little area, this Alignment.
• 01:50 Now watch this next one, this is Columns.
• 01:53 Would you like two columns in your text box, maybe three columns in your text box.
• 01:57 So you can divide it up any way you want.
• 02:01 Margins, take a look at this one, Margins.
• 02:03 You can have narrow margins, moderate margins, wide margins.
• 02:07 You can customize the margins.
• 02:08 Yes, a text box has it's own set of internal margins.
• 02:12 It is not page margins here.
• 02:14 It's text box margins.
• 02:15 I'm gonna go ahead and take that column back to one single column,
• 02:18 and I'm gonna turn on something else.
• 02:21 On the View ribbon, Boundaries.
• 02:24 So when I click on Boundaries, you're actually gonna see the internal lineups.
• 02:29 It's basically an outline of the text box.
• 02:32 When I go to Format > Columns, watch what happens with three columns.
• 02:36 Can you see those lines in there?
• 02:38 They don't print.
• 02:39 They're just a guide for your eyes to make sense of what's happening.
• 02:43 Sometimes it looks a little confusing and if it does just go back to View,
• 02:47 turn off the Boundaries.
• 02:48 It depends on what I'm working on, whether I have mine on or off.
• 02:52 All right, I'm gonna go ahead and remove those columns and
• 02:55 go back to single column.
• 02:56 We talked about margins and creating links.
• 02:59 Maybe this text box is too short and
• 03:03 I want it to link and spill into the next one.
• 03:05 The little red handles tell me I have a problem.
• 03:07 I can create a link or this little button right down here, it's real tiny.
• 03:11 It looks like a dot, dot, dot.
• 03:12 Is the same thing, it is the Create Link button.
• 03:15 So when I click that I get a little tiny measuring cup.
• 03:18 And when I move that measuring cup into another text box, it's gonna spill those
• 03:22 letters, you can see tiny little alphabet letters spilling out.
• 03:25 It's gonna spill those letters into the next text box.
• 03:28 Now they're linked together.
• 03:29 So I've got this little link telling me that it goes right back to this one.
• 03:33 It will actually highlight the text box that it is linked to.
• 03:36 The very last option I wanna show you about is not the Word Art Styles,
• 03:40 because there's an entire video on Word Art, but the Typography Styles.
• 03:44 This is actually very interesting depending on what font you have chosen.
• 03:48 You can choose to have drop caps,
• 03:51 which it's almost like fairy tale stories that we used to read.
• 03:55 Now let's see. Number styles, you can change those.
• 03:58 The ligatures, the swash, and the stylistic alternatives
• 04:01 aren't available on this particular font style I've chosen.
• 04:03 But stylistic sets, these are available.
• 04:06 So it's up to you to kind of do your research and
• 04:09 look into these cool font typography styles.
• 04:13 But generally, that's basically text boxes.
• 04:16 You can get very creative or very basic.
• 04:18 It's all up to you.
• 04:20 Thank you.

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