Text boxes and text editing
This topic gives practical guidance on using the Text Box tool and the Edit Text tool, and explains how they differ from each other. Spell checking is available for both tools.
Text Boxes and Callouts are annotations. Therefore, they appear in the Comments panel, accept replies and conversations, have a review status and can be migrated. Text items do not appear in the Comments panel.
Click the
Text Box tool at
to make comments that remain visible, in contrast to
Notes that can be shrunk to an icon. Drag a window and enter
text. The text box expands to accept longer text. When entering a text, make a selection and use the context-sensitive formatting
toolbar to modify text properties.
Use the
Hand tool or the
Text Box tool to select an existing text box and double-click to change the text. To change text
properties, use the context-sensitive formatting tab. To specify default values for text boxes, select
.
To set text properties quickly, without using the formatting tab, right-click the selected section in the text box, click ext Style in the shortcut menu, and then apply any format (Bold, Italic, Underline, Superscript, Subscript).
Use the
Select tool or the
Hand tool at the top of the Panel bar to move or resize a text box. To change its appearance,
right-click and select
Properties to specify border style, thickness and color, a fill color, and an opacity value for the
text box. You can also access the text box
Author,
Subject and
History properties. To avoid accidental modification, select the
Protected check box. For more details on object properties, see
Annotation and Markup Object
Properties.

Text added as a Text Box or a Callout remains as annotations.