You can move the box around by clicking and dragging inside the box.

The text box will now be inserted into your Google Doc.

When done, click the “ Save & Close” button.

Finally you can click the “ Fill color” button if you want to color the inside of the text box.

Additionally you can change the “ Line weight” and “ Line dash”.

If you want a solid line around you text box you can click the “ Line color” menu button to make it something other than transparent.

If you need to resize the text box simply click and drag any of the blue square handles on the edges or corners.

You may need to click the “ More” button on the toolbar to see these options

As needed you can change the font face, size, color, and other formatting.

Once the box has been created you can type your text inside.

The cursor will now change to crosshairs which you can use to click and drag out the text box.

Now click the “ Text box” button in the menu bar.

This will open a pop-up window with a Google Drawing.

First click the “ Insert” menu and then choose “ Drawing”.

See below for a video showing how to do this, and read the rest of the post for written directions.Įven though you can’t add a text box directly through the “Insert” menu, you can insert a Google Drawing and indirectly add a text box through that. In the meantime there is a workaround that does a pretty good job. The option does exist in the “Insert” menu of Google Slides and Google Drawings, so hopefully we will eventually get an update to Google Docs that provides more features for adding object like text boxes. In Google Docs, however, when you click on the “ Insert” menu there is not an option for a text box. In Microsoft Word you can easily insert a text box, type in it, and move it around to any spot in the document.

One of the most commonly mentioned missing features is the ability to add text boxes. For example Docs does not support page borders or drop caps. ( See here for some of my favorite features of Google Docs.)Īnd even though Docs is constantly being upgraded, there are some features that it is still missing. Google Docs is a powerful word processing program that does many unique things beyond a traditional program such as Microsoft Word.

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