I have a box in a file that I inherited looks like a text box, but it does not act like one. You can type into it and it will grow, but if you are in the box and start hitting the delete key, text under it will come into the box. It can be resized, but it cannot be moved. Clicking in in does not open up any of the tools that one would expect from a text box, or even from a single cell table. It does not create a problem, but I am quite perplexed.

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It's an outside border.

I did not even know you could do that. I wonder if there are advantages over doing that as opposed to creating a text box.

Either way, I have learned something new. Thanks!

Text box can be resized; have text flow around it; have fancy graphics. Check out the format ribbon that appears when you create a text box.

Text boxes are essentially graphical elements and their use has as many disadvantages as advantages.

This paragraph simply has a border and background fill as paragraph formatting. It remains part of the text layer (important if using fields which frequently don't work as expected in text boxes).

You can combine the two approaches by using frames, which are a type of paragraph formatting and thus form part of the text layer of the document, but include some text box attributes like wrapping. Frames can also be configured to grow.

The most common use in Word of a frame is the envelope address block used by the envelope function. You can add the frame command to the QAT as it is not present on the ribbon.

The attached modification to your document shows all three types of boxed text, plus a table cell which represents another similar option.

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