- [Instructor] Now let's dive a little bit deeper into text
and look at text boxes.
Now these are basically just containers that hold text,
and we've worked with these before.
So in this particular slide,
if I were to left-click and drag and select everything,
you'll see we have three text boxes,
one here at the top for the title, and two more beneath.
Now, each text box can be manipulated.
So if I were to, say, hover over this text
and select the text box, you'll see we have
a number of handles here in the middle,
as well as in the corners,
and that will allow us to scale that text box.
If I click in between these, notice how I get an arrow,
and that allows me to move that wherever I want,
or if I click up here, you can see I have
the ability to rotate my text box.
Now, you don't have to manipulate one text box at a time.
You can manipulate multiple text boxes.
So I'm going to go ahead and shift select
this second text box on the right,
and then just in the middle on the bottom,
I'm going to click that handle
and let's just go ahead and make it a little bit smaller.
Now, in addition to text boxes that you already have,
you can also add any number of text boxes that you want,
and we can do this in the insert menu.
So I'm going to select insert,
go over here to the right and select text box.
Now, all I have to do is left click and drag,
and I can drag out a text box.
Now notice when I do this,
how sometimes these arrows appear,
and that will allow me to size it exactly the same size as
other elements in the scene.
So for example, this here is going to be as wide as
the title bar, but as high as these two here.
Now, once I have this, I can start typing.
Now notice how when I start to type,
the size of the text box changes.
I'm just going to paste in some text that I already have.
And let's go ahead and make that text bigger.
So I'm going to select this text box
and then just in my home menu, in the font menu,
I can make that as big or as small as I want.
So I'm going to make this at 28,
which is the same size as the others.
Now, notice how this text box scales to fit.
Now, that's just the default.
If I want to, I can change it by changing
how the text box is formatted.
Now, there's two ways to go about it.
One way is that when you select the text box,
you'll get this orange format menu along the top.
And then I can just click on this
and this gives me all sorts of ways to manipulate this,
but I'm going to get a little bit more precise
and I'm going to right-click over the text box
and you'll see we get a number of options.
I'm going to select size and position.
And this allows me to change
the size and position of that text box.
So if I wanted the text box bigger,
I could type, say, two inches into the height,
but I also need to change how that text auto-fits.
So if I scroll down here,
you'll say resize shape to fit text,
but I want this to be two inches,
so I'm going to select do not auto-fit,
and that will allow me to keep this text box the same size.
Now, in addition to this,
I can position this however I want.
I can position the text vertically
to the top, middle or bottom.
I can also do top, middle, and bottom centered.
Now, once you've adjusted your text box,
you can always just hit X here
and that closes it and we can go back to the home menu
and affect whatever else we want.
So if I wanted to, say,
select this text and bold it, I could.
So text boxes hold text,
but you can also manipulate the boxes themselves
to give them the shape and size that you want.