Text boxes and text editing
This topic gives practical guidance on using the Text Box tool and the Typewriter tool, and explains how they differ from each other. Spell checking is available for both tools.
Text Boxes and Callouts are annotations. Therefore, they appear in the Comments panel, accept replies and conversations, have a review status and can be migrated. Text items do not appear in the Comments panel.
You can change Text Boxes from annotations to document objects (so they become like typewriter text) with the command Flatten Document. Delete them by Removing Document Elements. Typewriter text is not affected by flattening or removing document elements.
Click the
Text Box tool ot the Comment tab of
the ribbon to make comments that remain visible, in contrast to Notes that can be shrunk to
an icon. Drag a frame and enter text. The text box expands to accept longer text. When entering a text, make a selection and use the context-sensitive
formatting panel to modify text properties.
Use the
Hand tool or the Text Box tool to
select an existing text box and double-click to change the text. To change text properties, use the
context-sensitive formatting panel. To specify default values for text boxes, select .
Use the
Select tool or the Hand tool at the
top of the Panel bar to move or resize a text box. To change its appearance, right-click
and select Properties to specify border style, thickness and
color, a fill color, and an opacity value for the text box. You can also access the text
box Author, Subject and
History properties. To avoid accidental modification, select
the Protected check box. For more details on object properties,
see Annotation and Markup Object Properties.
Click the
Callout tool on the Comment
tab of the ribbon instead of the Text Box tool, to add an
arrow-headed line pointing from the text box to a place on the page.
Text added as a Text Box or a Callout remains as annotations.