When you need some text to stand apart from your main writing, both Microsoft Word and Google Docs make it pretty simple to add a quick text box ...

Add a text form field to a Word 2003 document by clicking the "ab" button on the Forms toolbar. Microsoft A gray box appears with five small circles side-by-side.

In Microsoft Word, the user can create text boxes in several built-in styles, predefined Textboxes offered in Word. If any of the built-in styles do not meet the user’s interest, there is a ...

In Microsoft Word, you can insert built-in or custom fields into your Word document that may change within your document. Learn how to insert a Text field in Word.

Pasting text from web pages into Microsoft Word can be a serious pain—all you wanted was the text, but it copies the formatting. Reader Wille writes in with a quick tip to make it simpler.

Pull quotes add visual variety to a text-heavy page; use them to place a sentence or two of interesting text copied from the surrounding page into a box separate from the page text.