How to Insert a Text Box in Google Docs (Using the Drawing Tool)

In this video, we’ll be showing you how to add a Text Box in Google Docs.

Text boxes are handy widgets you can move around that are separate from the main body of text. Google Docs does not make it easy to find this feature, but we’ll show you how to get there. Let’s create a Text Box in Google Docs.

1. Click Insert at the top and then Drawing - New.
2. Click the Text Box icon on the top bar.
3. Now you can draw a Text Box and add text to it.
4. When you’re done hit the Save and Close button at the top right.
5. Click on the Text Box to open options to edit it.
6. Here you can edit the text by clicking the Edit button.
You can also resize the box, but you’ll notice that we can’t move the Text box.
7. To move the Text Box wherever you want, click the middle icon for Wrap Text.
Now you can move the Text Box where you want.

Text Boxes are hidden in the Drawing menu, but Google Docs does have that feature!

❓💬 What other Drawing tools do you want to learn about? Let us know in the comments below.

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[robinbord]

Thank you so much for this video! I was freaking out when I couldn't figure out how to add a textbox but your video helped me so much. Thanks again.

[ryantran]

Thank you for this tutorial. I don't know what I would be doing for my school project if I didn't find this video.

[yryxin]

Question: can you raise the quality if the text as when I tried this, it was slightly blurry. Would this be a problem when printing.

[johnlawrencetamio]

Thank you for this tutorial. I helped my friend because of this. He doesn't know how to add a text box. I subscribed and thumbs up your video.

[TeddyNY]

Thanks i was writing an article and for school and didn’t know how to add one

[tipofthesummitsalvant]

What if you typed something before setting up the new drawing textbox? would it erase all you've written if you did this after typing? Also, I just want to draw boxes around a cluster of ideas so that it's not confusing to read for others. I heard you can't have a paragraph for 1 bullet point and that's why I'm reverted to an alternate. Maybe making borders/boxes around them I thought...?

[HSnake]

Is it possible to keep the text inside the text box as "text" ? As in, to have it selectable or possible to come up in a CTRL F query of the document?

[Lyx._n]

Thank you so much I was struggling to do an assignment

[jonathanrice]

Can you make the borders visible? Want to print out a form with blank boxes to be filled out by hand.. thanks.

[vishnusuraj]

Thank you very much it worked ❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍

[Patrick-puxg]

Thanks, man! Google Docs is a pain in my neck sometimes.

[bernardm]

Useful. Now can I make my text "move", for example from left to right, continuously in the text box?

[helendavey]

I would have never discovered that secret!

[stevenlukasiewicz]

how do you copy a text box to insert a duplicate format in another location on the document. l

[balvirrandhawa]

Can make a video about how to write on the right side in google docs? By the thanks

[crysmesh]

How can you add a link on a certain word in the text box?

[eugene]

wow google docs is still trash. If I resize the textbook, it resizes all the words instead of wrapping the text in the box. the quality of the font is also suspect. why can't they just do a real textbox like MS Word?

[mrblobius]

I don't want to wrap the text box. I want it to be in front of an image. Google docs doesn't work that way it seems.

[DTSwastaken]

bruh why did they mmove it to google drawings like what was the point

[kingmonday]

Why not just have it as a normal feature though? Seems weird that Google of all people would need a work around for such a basic and readily used feature.