How To Insert A Text Box In Google Docs

Google Docs is an excellent online word processor that helps you with the capability of writing, Editing, and sending documents. We definitely need a document in our work life or study. Google Docs is one of the easy options to meet your need. While working with a document, many times we have the requirement to add a textbox in the document. Well, in this article, we will discuss the steps to insert a text box or shapes In Google Docs.

How To Insert A Text Box In Google Docs? Below are the 4 simple steps to add a textbox in Google Docs.

1. Open your Google Docs document.
2. Click on Insert menu –> Select Drawing –> + New button
3. Click on the Textbox icon and draw a text box on the Drawing area.
4. Click on the Save and Close button to add the textbox to your Google Docs document.

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How To Insert A Text Box In Google Docs

It’s quite easy to add a textbox in Google Docs. Below are the 3 best ways to insert a textbox in Google Docs. You can follow the below approaches and can watch Video tutorial for the same.

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Approach-1: Using the Drawing tool

You can easily insert a text box or shapes in Google Docs using the Drawing tool by following the below steps

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document where you want to insert the text box.
2. Now, click on the Insert Menu –> Select Drawing option –> Click on the + New button.

3. Click on the Textbox icon as highlighted below.

4. Now, drag it on the drawing space and make a text box and then you can release the mouse. Add the needed text inside the text box.

Customizing text boxes

5. You can also customize the text box by changing the border color, weight, etc, and then click on the Save and Close button to add the text box in the Google document.

These are the steps for adding Text Boxes in Google Docs using Drawing option.

Approach-2: Using a Single Cell Table (1 x 1 Table)

Follow the below steps to insert a text box in Google Docs by using single-cell (1×1) table.

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document where you want to insert the text box.
2. Click on the Insert menu –> Select the Table option –> Click on the first option i.e 1 row 1 column table as highlighted below.

3. You can add the desired text inside the text box and customize the text box based on your need.

Approach-3: Using Shapes option

One more way to create and insert a text box in Google Docs is by using the Shapes option. Follow the below steps to use Shapes to create and insert a text box in Google Docs.

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document where you want to insert the text box.
2. The next step is to click on the Insert Menu –> Select Drawing option –> Click on the + New button.

3. Click on the Shapes option –> Select Shapes –> Choose the desired shape from the list of shapes.

4. Now, you can drag it on the drawing area and make a text box and then release the mouse. Add the needed text inside the text box. You can customize the text box by changing the border color, weight, text color, etc by using the below option, and finally, click on the Save and Close button to save the changes.

Edit a textbox or Shapes in Google Docs

5. Once the text box is added to the Google Docs, if you want to edit the properties of the textbox, then you can click on the Edit button as highlighted below.

How To Insert an Image Into a Text Box In Google Docs

Once you will add the text box by using any of the methods above, Now follow the below steps to edit the text box and insert an image into the text box in Google Docs.

1. Click on the Edit button to edit the different properties of the text box.

2. Click on the Image button to add the image in the text box as highlighted below.

3. On the Insert Image window, you can click on the Choose an image to upload or you can also drag an image there to upload.

4. You can drag the image inside the text box and customize the text box and image based on your need. Finally, click on the Save and Close button to save the changes.

How To Insert A Text Box Over A Picture In Google Docs

It’s quite easy to insert a text box over a picture in Google Docs. Follow the below steps to add a text box over a picture in Google Docs.

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document where you want to insert a text box over a picture.
2. Copy the image for which one you want to add a text box over it. You can right-click on the image and select the copy option or you can use Ctrl + C keyboard shortcut to copy the image.
3. Now, click on the Insert Menu –> Select Drawing option –> Click on the + New button.

4. On the Drawing window, right-click and select the paste option to paste the image that you have copied above or you can use the Ctrl + V keyboard shortcut to paste the image.

5. Now, click on the text box option and drag it and draw a text box over the image based on the size that you need.

6. To customize the Border color of the text box or the other properties like Border dash, Border weight, etc, select the below options. Finally, click on the Save and Close button to save the changes.

How To Put A Box Around Text In Google Docs

Let’s discuss here How To Add A Box Around Text In Google Docs. There are multiple ways to put a text box around the text in Google Docs. Follow the below methods to insert a text box around the text in Google Docs.

Method-1: Put A Box Around Text Using Drawing Option

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document and locate the text where you want to insert a text box around that.
2. Now, click on the Insert Menu –> Select Drawing option –> Click on the + New button.

3. On the Drawing window, click on the text box option and then drag it and make a text box shape.

4. You can customize it now. For example, if you want to make the text as center align, click on the three-dot (…) and then select the center align option as highlighted below.

5. you can change the border weight and border color by clicking on the below options.

6. Finally, click on the Save and Close button to save the changes to your Google Docs.

Method-2: Put A Box Around Text Using a Single Cell table

Another easiest way to put a box around the text in Google Docs using a single Cell table. Follow the below information to add a box around the text in Google Docs.

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document and locate the text where you want to insert a text box around that.
2. Click on the Insert menu –> select the Table option –> Click on the 1 X 1 option i.e the first option.

3. Now type the desired text inside the text box.

4. You can customize the text box a little bit like, make the text to center align, select the text and then click on align dropdown and then click on the center align button as highlighted below.

5. Click to select borders option and then select the all borders option.

6. Click on the Border width and Border color option as highlighted below to customized the text box a little bit based on your requirement.

How To Move Text Box In Google Docs

Well, here we will see how to move a text box in Google Docs using the below steps.

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document and locate the text where you want to insert a text box around that.
2. Now, click on the Insert Menu –> Select Drawing option –> Click on the + New button.

3. On the drawing window, click on the text box option to add the text box. Now you can hold the below-highlighted option and drag the text box to move it from one place to another on the drawing window. Click on the Save and Close button to save this text box in your Google Doc.

4. Select the textbox and click on the three dots (…) –> Click on the Size & rotation option as highlighted below.

5. Select the Wrap text option and then make sure from the Position section, Move with text option is selected.

6. Hold the highlighted icon and drag it any place where you want to move the text box.

7. Now, you can able to see that we have moved the text box from left to right position.

How To Type In A Text Box In Google Docs

You can easily type in a text box in Google Docs or can easily add a text inside a text box in Google Docs using the below steps.

1. Navigate to https://docs.google.com/ and click on the + (Blank) button to create a blank document or you can open any existing google document and locate the text where you want to insert a text box and want to add the text inside the textbox.
2. Now, click on the Insert Menu –> Select Drawing option –> Click on the + New button.

3. On the drawing window, click on the text box option to add the text box. Then tap inside the text box and write the desired text that you want to add inside the text box or, you copy any text and right-click inside the text box and click on the Paste option.

4. It will look good if you can center align the text. To make the text center align, you can select the text –> Click on the Align dropdown –> Select the Center align option as shown below.

5. Now you can able to see the text is center-aligned and click on the Save and close button to save the changes.

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Wrapping Up

In this article, we have discussed 3 best ways to insert a text box in Google Docs and we saw it’s quite easy to edit a text box or shapes in Google Docs. Now, it’s your turn to make your Google Docs document looks better by adding shapes or textboxes into your document and move the text boxes where ever you need for a better look. Hope you have enjoyed this article !!!