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Resize text boxes

When you select a text box, white circles, called handles, appear along the boundary. You use handles to resize a text box (or any selected object) by clicking and dragging the handles until the object has the dimensions you want.

Middle handles on an object resize the height and width of the object, while corner handles let you resize both simultaneously. For example, if you wanted to increase both the height and width of a text box, you could click the handle in the bottom right-hand corner and drag outward:

When you release the mouse button, the box is resized:

To decrease both dimensions, you could click the same handle, but drag inward to shrink the box:

For our example newsletter, we'll resize the length of the text boxes containing the second article on Page 2 so they fill the blank space we've created.

First, select the text box containing the first column of the article:

Now, click the middle handle on the bottom horizontal boundary and drag it toward the bottom of the page:

When you release the mouse, the text box is resized:

Resize the text box for the second column to match the first:

 

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