Key Points

  • When you click the text in a text object, it is surrounded by a slanted-line selection box, which indicates that you can edit and format the text. When you click the slanted-line selection box, the text is surrounded by a dotted selection box, which indicates that you can manipulate the object as a unit.

  • In addition to titles and bullet points or other paragraphs, you can create two types of text boxes: text labels, and word processing boxes. The first is a single line of text, and the second is a note that wraps in a box. You can change one into the other by changing the word-wrap and fit-text options in the Format Text Box dialog box.

  • You can align text to the left or right, or you can center it in a text object. You can also adjust ...

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