Add text to your projects

You can easily add text to your project pages, and we have a many fonts and colors to choose from. You have two options to add text. They each depend on your page layout:

If your page does not contain a text box

1. Open the Text menu on the left (see example).
2. Click the Add Text icon at the bottom of the menu.
3. A text box with a blue border will open in the middle of the page (see below). Type in your text first, as it's easier to do before moving the text box or making other changes.
    
   Note: You can include most special characters  (e.g. ñ, ® , ½, µ, etc.) by copying them from the web or a word processing program and pasting them into the text box. You cannot type them into the box directly.
    
4. Next, you can change the font, the color or text alignment in the Text menu. Changes apply to all text in the box. Doing so will turn the border on your text box from blue (insert mode) to white (move mode), as shown below.
   
5. In move mode, you can
   • delete the box,
   • drag and drop the text box to another place on the page, or
   • drag one of the text box corners or midpoints outward to increase the text box size and allow for more space to type or larger fonts.

If your page already contains a text box

1. For page layouts that already include a text area, click the Add Text area to select the text box. The border of the box will turn to white dashed lines with circles at the corners and diamonds at the midpoints of each side (see below).
   
2. Then click within the box and when the border turns blue (see below), type away!  
   
   As above, you can add special characters by copying them from the web or a word processing file and pasting them into the text box.
   
   
3. Next, you can change the font, the color or text alignment in the menu. Changes apply to all text in the box.
4. In move mode, you can
   • delete the box,
   • drag and drop the text box to another place on the page, or
   • drag one of the text box corners or midpoints outward to increase the text box size and allow for more space to type or larger fonts.

Tip: Avoid putting dark text on a dark photo or background, or light text on a light photo or background, because you won't be able to see your text!.

The maximum font size you can choose depends on the text box height and width.   If you want a larger font, first increase the text box size by dragging one of the corners outward. Then, choose a larger font size in the menu (see example on right).

If you need more space for text, enlarge the text box as shown and described above..

If you misspell a word, our spell checker will underline it in red (see example below), and offer some substitutions. Don't worry if the spell checker doesn't recognize a name or new term; the red line only shows in your workspace.