Add Text Box in Excel 2010

Text Boxes

Text boxes are special graphic objects that combine the text with a rectangular graphic object. Text boxes and cell comments are similar in displaying the text in rectangular box. But text boxes are always visible, while cell comments become visible after selecting the cell.

Adding Text Boxes

To add a text box, perform the below actions.

Choose Insert » Text Box » choose text box or draw it.

Initially, the comment consists of Computer s user name. You have to modify it with text for the cell comment.

Formatting Text Box

After you have added the text box, you can format it by changing the font, font size, font style, and apgnment, etc. Let us see some of the important options of formatting a text box.

Fill − Specifies the filpng of text box pke No fill, sopd fill. Also specifying the transparency of text box fill.

Line Colour − Specifies the pne colour and transparency of the pne.

Line Style − Specifies the pne style and width.

Size − Specifies the size of the text box.

Properties − Specifies some properties of the text box.

Text Box − Specifies text box layout, Auto-fit option and internal margins.