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Our multi-style text boxes give you absolute control over adding text anywhere to any piece of stationery. Because the text is not a part of the card, it is not constrained to the card's margins or even the orientation of the text. Floating text boxes can be flipped, rotated, stretched, placed over or behind images and even have colorful graphical or custom borders. You can adjust the horizontal alignment and vertical line spacing for the text box either as a unit or on a line-by-line basis. Extreme offers many text styles: patterned, outlined, embossed, engraved and point-justified text as well as our new advanced styles: Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Small Caps, Lowercase and Uppercase. In the example below, we used a floating text box to rotate the date 90 degrees to the left. We set the style of the text box to Engrave. We used the set the text box's horizontal alignment to Stretch Justify and the vertical alignment to Vertical Stretch Justify to make the date stretch to fill the space to the left of the margin.

Note: The light gray rectangle represents a margin and will not be printed.

You can easily add floating text to any stationery. Just click on the Insert Text Box button in the toolbar or choose Text Box, Insert Text Box in the Design menu and the Text Box window will appear. A scaled preview of your text box is shown at the right of the window. Use the toolbar controls at the top of the window to change the font, size, style, fill color or pattern, outline color, outline width, background color of the text box, alignment, even text shape. You can also adjust the line spacing, nudge line placement, adjust horizontal spacing, stretch the text horizontally or vertically, and add European accents and special characters with the toolbar buttons.

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Floating text boxes also allow you to adjust the transparency of the text using the Opacity controls at the bottom of the Text Box window. An Opacity setting of 100% is completely opaque. The example below shows two semi-overlapping floating text boxes each with an Opacity setting of 60%.

Note: The light gray rectangle represents a margin and will not be printed.