Absolute Beginner's Guide to WordPerfect® 12

Creating Text Boxes

A text box is just what you would expect: a box that you can type text into. Text boxes in a graphics chapter? You might be wondering how text boxes fit in a chapter on graphics. Well, the box that contains the text is a graphics box, so you treat text boxes just like graphic images.

What's nifty about text boxes is that you can create some text, such as a sign or a label, and then move it on top of other text or graphic images. See “Layering Graphics” at the end of this chapter for more information.

To create a text box

1.	Position the insertion point approximately where you want the text box to begin.
2.	Choose Insert, Text Box. WordPerfect places an empty text box at the right of the screen (see Figure 12.15). Figure 12.15. ...