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Floating text boxes give you complete control over adding text to any card, envelope, place card or other 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 borders. The following is an example of a rotated floating text box in a birthday party invitation:

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

You can easily add floating text to any stationery using our text box tool. Just choose Text Box, Insert Text Box in the Design menu and the Text Box window will appear:

Enter your text in the Text field. You can change the font, size, color and style by clicking on Change font. You can set the horizontal and vertical alignment with the alignment combo boxes. You can specify full justification for both horizontal and vertical alignment. You can condense or expand your text both horizontally and vertically with the condense/expand combo boxes. You can also check for spelling errors in your text by clicking the Check spelling button. If you want the text box to resize to fit the new settings, check the Resize text box to fit text checkbox. If it is not checked, the size of the text box will not change. A preview of the text you have entered will be displayed in the Scaled preview area and will include all the style settings you have specified. Once you click OK, your floating text box will appear on your stationery:

You can drag the text box to any location with your mouse, you can use the Move Image window that was described in floating images, and you can align and distribute floating text boxes with other floating objects. The text box is initally floating, but can be inserted into the content of your card by selecting the text box and choosing Text Box, Float Over Text in the Design menu.

You can also apply all the enhanced image effects in the image toolbar to your floating text boxes. Just select the text box and click on the desired effect button in the image toolbar.