Adding a Text Box

Quick reference

• 00:04 I showed you in the last lesson that you can click on one of your shapes and
• 00:08 then start to type in text and the text will be associated with that shape.
• 00:13 Now if you want to change the text on a shape, you can click on it then you
• 00:18 click on the Home menu, and then you click on the word Text right here,
• 00:23 and then you'll be able to change the text associated with that shape.
• 00:28 When you're done with the text tool, come over here and
• 00:31 pick on the pointer tool and your mouse will go back to normal.
• 00:35 All right, so you can always click on a shape.
• 00:38 Pick on the word Text here.
• 00:40 It's called the text tool, and then change the text from there.
• 00:44 When you're done with that, make sure you pick on the pointer tool.
• 00:48 Now let's say I want to text anywhere else in the diagram.
• 00:52 Well, then we can add a text box.
• 00:54 So I'm going to pick on the Insert menu up top, Insert, and then we have text box.
• 01:01 So it can be a horizontal text box or a vertical text box.
• 01:05 So I'm going to say draw horizontal text box.
• 01:09 And then you move your mouse somewhere and
• 01:13 I'm going to click over here and I'll say our first Visio diagram.
• 01:21 And then just click away from that.
• 01:24 And now to format that text, I can click on the text box,
• 01:28 of course I can move that, I can reposition it naturally.
• 01:32 Then you pick on the Home menu and
• 01:34 you see a lot of your classic formatting over here as you can see.
• 01:38 So that was a horizontal text box.
• 01:41 Let's say I want text going along the side or
• 01:44 maybe even somewhere within the diagram.
• 01:47 Once again, I'll pick on the word Insert, and
• 01:49 then we're going to click on the pulldown for the text box.
• 01:53 And I'll say vertical text box, good.
• 01:56 So maybe over here on the side,
• 02:01 I'm going to click here and I'll type in
• 02:05 login decision tree.
• 02:10 And you can see how the text comes up vertical.
• 02:13 So just click over here.
• 02:15 So naturally I can just pick up that text and move it around.
• 02:19 Obviously we can format text on the Home Menu.
• 02:22 So you can associate a text with an actual shape.
• 02:26 You would click on that shape and type in the text.
• 02:29 If it already has text and you want to change it then you pick on the shape and
• 02:34 then you pick on the text tool, and then you'll be able to type over that text.
• 02:38 When you're done with the text tool, pick the pointer tool,
• 02:42 you always go back to the pointer tool.
• 02:44 The other way to add text onto your diagram
• 02:46 is to pick on the Insert menu, and then we'll say a text box.
• 02:51 And it can be either a horizontal text box or a vertical text box.
• 02:55 You can have as many text boxes in your diagram as you need.
• 02:58 And then of course those can be moved or repositioned.
• 03:02 If I click on the text box, then of course, I can use my home menu,
• 03:06 to format the text as we can see.
• 03:09 So that should give you some ideas of how to add text onto your Visio diagram.

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