Since Microsoft Word has had the text box feature for so long, it's managed to effectively streamline the creation process. It just takes a couple of clicks to make a fresh text box.

A Text Box is a feature in Word that focuses on its content and displays essential text such as headings and quotes. 1] How to insert a Built-in Styles Text Box. Click the Insert tab on the menu bar.

Adding a text box to a Microsoft Word document is an effective way to make certain sections of text stand out on the page; for example, the text for an image caption, flyout or a pull quote. You ...

You can also fill text boxes with Word's collection of shapes – such as stars, bursts and banners – as well as copy existing shapes from within those text boxes.

If the text box won’t resize in Word or Excel on a Windows 11/10 PC, use the options covered below. Before that, update Microsoft Word or Excel, insert a text box, and check if the problem is gone.

Note: If you just need to convert to regular text, press Ctrl + B in the Find What box and then click in the Replace With box and press Ctrl + B twice. This tells Word to replace Bold with Not Bold.