How to insert a text box in Google Docs

October 17, 2022 Henry Jackson 0 Comments

How to insert a text box in Google Docs: Google Docs or Google Documents is integrated into our Gmail account as a free alternative for writing documents with functions and tools similar to those of other word processors, everything that is created or edited will be kept in the cloud offering access from anywhere in the world just by starting our session, Google Docs has also gained strength to be the ideal online word processor giving the user the options to create and format documents as well as having the possibility of working with other people as a team.

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Features of Google Docs

Some of the features of Google Docs are:

Built-in templates

Allow us to join a Google Meet video meeting

Allows to add summaries to the content

It is possible to make use of a format without pages and without page breaks

Allows you to add text watermarks to the background of the document

With these and many more functions it is possible that there are certain actions that we want to carry out in the document and one of them is to insert a text box which will help to better express ideas as well as link points between the content of the document, it is possible to add boxes of text in two ways which Solvetic will explain to you in this tutorial.

How to insert a text box in Google Docs Method # 1

Insert Google Docs Text Box from Drawing

Step 1

This is one of the simple ways to carry out this process since the drawing function adds multiple options to edit our documents, to use this method we open Google Docs at the following link:

GOOGLE DOCS

Step 2

There we go to the menu “Insert – Drawing – New”:

Step 3

The following will open:

Step 4

We click on the “Text Box” icon located at the top, then we adjust the dimension of the text box and enter the desired text:

Step 5

We configure the text with the available tools such as:

Font size and style

Text box padding
text color
Highlight color, etc.

Step 6

Once this is configured, we click on “Save and close” and the text box will be in the file in Google Docs:

Step 7

When selecting the text box it is possible to use any of the options as necessary:

How to insert a text box in Google Docs Method # 2

Insert Google Docs Text Box from Table

Step 1

The Table function is another of the simple options to achieve a text box in Google Docs, we open Google Docs, we go to “Insert – Table” and there we select the 1×1 measure: