What is a text box?

Answer 1

On any Windows interface, it is a place you type some text in. Where you typed your question and where we type our answers are large text boxes, known sometimes as multi-line text boxes. Almost any time you type something as simple as your name, username, e-mail address or anything like that into a computer, it is normally going into a text box.

Answer 2

You can put text in them, often to stand out from the regular text on the page. You can use it to put text over other text. You can use it to put text over other items in the document, like a graphic. You can have it if you want it to be a separate piece of text that the rest of the text wraps around, like you see in documents where something is quoted from the main document. You can adjust the text in the text box, like changing its orientation, which is useful and cannot be done to regular text. There are lots of reasons to do it, but most involve in some way separating text from the standard text in the document.

Answer 3

It allows you to type text into it, but it is not a cell. It is separate and the it is the same as text boxes found in other applications. You might use it for putting in titles or putting in comments that you want to be visible and for putting in things without using cells and do not need to be calculated.

Answer 4

it is where you add the words that you are entring

Answer 5

A text box in MS power point is for entering text. It is the only way of entering text in that.

Answer 6

It is a drawing object. Yes.