Black Box Typing

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Black Box Typing

by Chassy

Nov 14, 2009

Hello everyone! My class is creating our first newsletter. So far, so good! I was wondering if anyone knows how to type text in on a black square? I've tried clicking white on the black but nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong?

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Chassy On 11/14/09, East End Long Islander wrote: > What program are you using? > Microsoft word/vista

Nov 14, 2009

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To Chassy Could you please be more specific as to what black box you are describing?

On 11/14/09, Chassy wrote: > On 11/14/09, East End Long Islander wrote: >> What program are you using? >> > Microsoft word/vista

Nov 14, 2009

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Bob/VA You are most likely talking about a "text box". Go to the "Insert" drop down menu, find "Text Box" and pick one that you like. You can position it anyplace you'd like as well as resizing to suit your purpose. You might also be trying to use a table - you can make table cells any size you want, you can change the color inside individual cells and ch...See More

Nov 14, 2009

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Neal The type layers over the background object, or the object itself can have whit text inside it.

Use Insert - Text Box select the box and right click choose Format Text box and choose a fill color and opacity, you can also have a border(bounding box) line or not, of the same color or not.

Once that's done you can format the color ...See More

Nov 15, 2009

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Chassy Thanks to all! It worked.

On 11/14/09, To Chassy wrote: > Could you please be more specific as to what black box you are > describing? > > > On 11/14/09, Chassy wrote: >> On 11/14/09, East End Long Islander wrote: >>> What program are you using? >>> >> Microsoft word/vista

Nov 15, 2009

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