

Both of these characters are usually significantly smaller than the normal font size. The buttons adds a superscript character-that is a character appears above the baseline. The button adds a subscript character-or one that appears below the baseline. You are undoubtedly familiar with the bold, italics, and underline commands, so we'll move on to the two buttons to the right. The button clears all character level formatting from the text box. Insert tab>Illustrations section>Pictures or Online Pictures (circled blue) Insert tab>Text section>Draw Text Box (circled orange) Insert tab>. Alternatively, you can click the button to increase the font size by one value, and the button to decrease the font by one value. The smaller the number, the smaller the font, and vice versa. You can click the box and type in a custom value, or use the arrow button to the right to select a preset. To the right of the font style box, is the font size box. But when you click that box, a drop down window opens, allowing scrolling through and even previewing each of the fonts installed on your computer. ( Suffice it to say, that fonts are subject to intellectual property laws that may prevent you from using for commercial purposes.)Ĭalibri is a type of font. You have access to every font installed on your computer, but you should be aware that not all fonts can be embedded into the document. The box above that says "Calibri" is where you will go to change the font. The example below shows a text box with overflow text inside of it. You can also drag the box to a bigger size by yourself in order to fit all of the text. An ellipses also appeared in a box near the bottom right hand corner of the text box that you can click on in order to "thread" the text to another text box, which we'll talk more about later in this article. Instead, red buttons will appear in the border around the text box, telling you that overflow text exists. Overflow text, that is text that doesn't fit inside of the box, is simply unseen.

Unlike the Best Fit button, it will only expand text back to the original font size when overflow text is deleted. Shrink Text On Overflow-This option is almost the same as best fit, except its focus is on shrinking the text so it stays inside the text box.Now you can change the border Color, Dashed, Style, Weight or select. If you were to then type even more text into the box, the text would shrink until all of it could fit inside. On the file menu, click on Format Textbox 3. For instance, if you were to draw a large text box, type something into it, and then choose this button, the text would expand to fill the entire text box. It takes into account the size of the text box and tries to guess what your intentions were.
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Best Fit-This option allows Publisher to determine how to fit the text.
