Adding text boxes. You may want to insert a text box into your document to draw attention to specific text or to have the ability to easily move text around within your document. Text boxes are similar to shapes. You can apply many of the same formatting

Google Docs lets you add text boxes to your documents to personalize and highlight specific information, but it does so in a different way than you might expect. To add one, you must first open up the Drawing Tool—not something that springs to mind when

In Google Docs on the web, select Insert, then Table, choose a 1x1 cell, then add text. In every case, you can select any text you enter in the table and adjust the font, font size, style, and color.