Step 5: Insert your Text Picture inside the shape. Click âNo Outlineâ to remove the outline color of the shape. For brochures, posters, student handouts and other text documents that need extra visual appeal, Microsoft word 2013 lets you include shapes in a document and format text to fit inside the shape. Within group Shape Styles, click Shape Outline, and then Select an outline color for the shape. Type the desired text and click enter. Add Tip Ask Question Comment Download. This is not a font issue as text above the shape with the Arial-->Regular font works fine. To change the text formatting, select the text and choose from the available text ⦠To do so, you need to make a text box first! There can be any number of other reasons to insert text within a shape -- and inserting or editing text within a shape using PowerPoint 2013 on a touch device such as Microsoft Surface is as easy as doing the same on the desktop version of PowerPoint 2013. Sign in. Switch to the âInsertâ menu. Open Word, and create a document of text. Step 4: Go back to Microsoft Word and draw your shape. Your text box will now appear in Word. Go to the top tab and select shapes, the drop down menu will show you your shapes. One of the easiest ways to make diagonal text in Word is with a text box. Once you do, any text on the Word document that got moved around when inserting the image will go back to its original position. Click the âText Boxâ button. Pakar PC 9,411 views. How add text to a shape in Word. Continuing from our look at putting Word text vertically, at an angle or curved hereâs how to put text around an object; image, chart, shape or other Word object.. Add text to the object. Click âNo Fillâ to remove fill color. However, when I try to add text inside of a rectangle, for example, the lines move as I type but the text is invisible. Sign in to add this video to a playlist. You can double-click the text box to type any text youâd like. Within group Shape Styles, click icon Shape Fill and then Select a fill color from the palette. Your text doesn't have to be boring in Microsoft Word.WordArt has multiple effects that curve text in Word documents. Step 1: 1. Introduction: How to Fill a Shape (Word 2013) With Text. Text around a Box. Notice that when you select âBehind Text,â two more options become available. For my example I used =rand(1,10) to create a page of random text. A cursor will appear in the center of the object. You can then draw it on your document in whatever size youâd like. The âMove with textâ option allows your graphic to move on the page as you add or delete text. Going back to my original shape, I set fill color to white, and transparency to 100% and voila, my text now wraps within the first, visible shape, and doesn't go outside it's borders. The equivalent in my new Word for Mac 2011 seems to be "Shapes". Hereâs a chart with four text boxes around it. 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