Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
If you select the text Tool and just click and type, you create a Text Line; the more you type, the longer it gets.

If you click and drag horizontally, you create a Text Column. This word-wraps and grows downwards.
If you drag diagonally, you create a Text Area. Text Areas can flow over into other text areas or create new pages for your text.

The last two make use of Paragraph Backgrounds.
The first only shows a small part under the words that is bigger than the text background when applied.

A Paragraph Background is left edge to right edge of the bounding box.
Text background is only under what you have typed.

Yes, you are using a Text Line and Paragraph Background incorrectly.
Use the text Tool:
  • Highlight all the text and Copy.
  • Click and drag diagonally to a similar box size of the current text. This is a Text Area.
  • Paste.
  • Job done.

Acorn
Thanks! I knew of the different methods of creating a place for text, but didn't realize they had specifically different behaviors (and object types).