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Create a text box "callout"
Dan Holme
October 30, 2007
1 Min Read
Desktop publishers often use callouts to draw attention to particular content. You can see an example of a callout in the figure below.
Callouts are achieved in Word using text boxes. Text boxes are like mini-documents that you can position on a page and fill with just about anything you would put in a Word document: text, graphics, tables, etc.
To create a text box:
Click the Text Box button on the Drawing toolbar
or
Choose Insert → Text Box.
Press Escape when the drawing canvas appears to remove the drawing canvas.
When you select any drawing tool, including Text Box, Word creates a drawing canvas unless you have turned off the automatic drawing canvas (Tools ? Options ? General). If you are creating a simple, stand-alone text box as a callout, with no additional shapes in the drawing, you will probably want to remove the drawing canvas.
Drag a rectangle to indicate the size of the desired text box.
You can then:
Enter text in the text box.
Use Format buttons on the Formatting and Drawing toolbars to format the text box and its content.
Use the Format ? Text Box command to format the text box. The Layout tab allows you to manage the text wrapping style for the text box.
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