Once you have a text box in your document, click into it and type the desired text (in our example, the “MESSAGE”). To change the font in the text box, either select the text itself, or just have the whole text box selected (this will change the font for the entire content of the text box).
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On the Home ribbon, choose the correct font (4) and the correct size (5). Most text effects are more visible in the bigger sizes, and that is why we are using a text size of at least 72 pt in all the tutorials. To use a bigger size than 72 pt, click in the size edit box and type the value on your keyboard (for example 150 pt). It is good to know that resizing the text box (6) does not change the text size.
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Sometimes, you also want to change the font color (7), and maybe have the text center aligned (8). The last step before jumping to the real tutorials is to get rid of the default black outline and white fill. To do so, keep the text box selected and on the Format ribbon (9), click the Shape Fill (10) dropdown and select No Fill, and click the Shape Outline and select No Outline (11). With those settings, the text box is now invisible, and all we can see is the text inside. Without it, locating the empty invisible text box would be quite hard (not impossible, but hard). A final note to bear in mind – there is a difference between working with the text box itself or with the content. When the selection box is showed as a dotted line (12), you are working with the text – pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard will move the text cursor. When you click on the text box outline and it becomes a solid line (13), you are working with the text box itself. Pressing the arrows keys on the keyboard will move the text box around the document. 15