How to Create a Box With Text in Word to Drop Into a Website
Microsoft Word is a flexible word-processing application that you can use to create a range of text documents with different formatting and styles. You can create a text box in Microsoft Word with the program's Word Art tool. Once you're happy with the look of the text box, you can save the document in filtered Web page format and drop the text box into the design code of your Web page.
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Instructions
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Launch Microsoft Word.
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Click "File" from the main navigation menu ribbon, then select "New" from the context menu to create a new Word document.
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Click the "Insert" tab on the menu ribbon. Click the "WordArt" button in the "Text" group.
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Select your preferred text style by clicking its thumbnail icon from the options in the WordArt viewing pane. This opens the WordArt text dialog box.
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Type the text that you want to include into the input field. Choose your preferred font face, size and style from the drop-down menus. Click the "OK" button to add the text box to the page.
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Select your preferred format for the display of the box around the text. You can choose from many styles in the WordArt options menu that displays in the main menu ribbon when you add the text box to the page in the previous step. For example, you can choose to add a border around the text box.
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Click the "File" tab and double-click "Save As" from the context menu. Click the button beside "Save as Type." Select "Web Page, Filtered" from the drop-down list, type a name for the Web page into the "Title" field and then click the "Save" button. This saves the document in HTML format, and you can now copy and paste this into the design code for your Web page or upload it to your Web hosting server as a stand-alone page.
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Tips & Warnings
Depending on the Web design program you use to create Web pages, you might need to apply further formatting to the text box you pasted from Microsoft Word to ensure that it fits into the page layout and design.
