Learn how to display text set apart from your main document in Google Docs with either a table or an inserted drawing.

Unlike Microsoft Word, Google Docs doesn’t currently provide a built-in text box feature, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. We’ll show you a few ways to insert a text box in Google Docs.

How to insert a text box in Google Docs Within Google Docs there is a pop-up version of Google Draw that allows you to insert shapes, text boxes and drawings into your document. Need a break?

Compared to Microsoft Word, the younger Google Docs has a slightly more circuitous process for creating a text box. It's still fairly simple, it just takes a bit of menu searching to find the ...

You can add text boxes and shapes to your Google Docs if you want to make a certain section stand out.

Other ways to create a text box While there is an official method for inserting a text box in Google Docs as detailed above, there are a few unconventional ways of getting a text box in your document.

If you want to add a Text Box in Google Docs then you can use the Drawing option & Single cell table, & change font, border width, background color, etc.

Google Docs treats text boxes like images. This means that resizing the text box transforms it in the same way as an image, which can lead to strange-looking text.