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Using the Text Box Tool

How to use all the options the Text Box tool has to offer.

Updated over a month ago

What is the Text Box tool?

The Text Box tool allows you to add text anywhere on your document that can then be moved and edited.

How to use the Text Box tool

Select the Text Box tool from your toolbar. Click where you'd like to add text to your page and begin typing. If you click out of the text box without typing something, it'll disappear.

There are three options for text boxes — Menu, Action bar, and Text Formatting bar. Below is a breakdown of each.


Menu

1. Font Size — Select the font before placing the text box

2. Font Colour — Choose the font color before placing the text box

3. Eyedropper and More Color options

Action bar

When hovering over a text box, an action bar will appear.

1. User Icon — The initials of the user who made the annotation

2. Move/ Rotate 90°

3. Accessibility features

  • Read Aloud — Click to hear the contents of the text box read out loud

  • Voice Typing — Click to transcribe speech into text

4. Annotation Bank — Save the text box to the Annotation Bank (only for teachers)

5. Delete

6. Free rotation

Text Formatting Bar

1. Font settings — Pick your preferred Font Type, Size, and Line Spacing

2. Font style — Bold, Italics, Underline, or Strikethrough

3. Font color — Font Color, font Background Color, and text box Fill Color

4. Subscript and Superscript

5. Numbered list or Bullet point list

6. Text Indents and Alignment

7. Link — Add a hyperlink inside the text box

8. Formula — Use the Equation tool inside the text box

9. Emoji — Select from a range of emojis to place in the text box

10. Reset formatting

11. Voice Typing — Click to transcribe speech (recorded with your microphone) into text


If you need further assistance, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at support@kamiapp.com or book some training with one of our Teacher Success Champions here: https://www.kamiapp.com/training

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