Type text in a shape

Create a text-only shape

Create a text-only shape

Click the Text tool on the Standard toolbar.
Click anywhere on the drawing page and drag until the text block is the size you want.
Type the text.
When you start typing, Edraw creates a text-only shape.
When you finish typing, click outside the text block (text block: The text area associated with a shape that appears when you click the shape with the text tool or select it with the pointer tool.).

Note To delete a text-only shape, use the Selection tool Button image to select the shape, and then press DELETE.

Type text in a shape

Select the shape, and then type the text.
When you finish typing, click outside the text block (text block: The text area associated with a shape that appears when you click the shape with the text tool or select it with the pointer tool.).

Tip

To type text in a shape, you can also:

Double-click the shape, and then type the text.
Select the shape and click the Text tool on the standard toolbar.

If you want to edit the text block which inside the group shapes, you can click the Text tool , this may be helpful to select which text block you want.

Note For straight line and connect line, there are three text block at the begin, middle and end of the line.

And there may be more than one text block in one shape, when you double click the shape to type the text, the nearest text block from double click point will be selected.

Type text in a shape

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