

Once you select the shape, it’ll appear in the Drawing editor window. Here you can adjust the size or add text. Use the Align menu icon to adjust the position of the text inside the text box. If you’d like, you can add multiple text boxes to the same drawing if you like. This will make both text boxes part of the same object that you’ll insert into the document. You can play around with how the text boxes look in quite a few ways. For example, if you select the fill icon in the toolbar, you can adjust the fill color for any text boxes you’ve selected. If you want to overlay text boxes, you can adjust which one appears over the other. Bring to front: Move the text box in front of all boxes above it.Bring forward: Move the text box in front of the one above it.Bring to back: Move the text box behind all boxes below it.Send backward: Move that text box behind the one below it.Just right-click any of the text boxes and select Order.

Once you’re done editing, select the Save and Close button to insert your new drawing object into the document. Keep in mind that if you’ve drawn multiple text boxes, all of those will get inserted as one object in the document. Using shapes as text boxes provide a lot more flexibility in formatting or shaping the text boxes themselves. However, if you’re more interested in inserting plain text boxes, read on. Add a Text Box in Google DocsĪdding a simple text box follows the same procedure as above, but instead of choosing from shapes in the menu, you need to select the text box icon. Just fill in the text, size the text box the way you like, and you’re done.
