How do I make text fit in a text box?

When a text box holds more words than it can show, the end of the text is hidden, and it won’t appear in your PDF or on paper. Korva tells you when that happens and gives you the same fixes Publisher has.

Spot text that doesn’t fit

• A small red A… marker sits at the box’s bottom-right corner.
• While you type in the box, a red Overflow — won’t print label marks the hidden lines.
• With the box selected, the Format pane’s Text tab says Text doesn’t fit in this box. When everything fits it says All text fits in this box.
• Review›, then Design Checker and the check before you export list it as Text does not fit — the end of this story will not print.

Let Korva fit the text

1. Click the text box.
2. In the Format pane, open the Text tab and find Text fit.
3. Choose an option under AutoFit:
   • Off: the text keeps its size. Anything that doesn’t fit stays hidden.
   • Shrink on overflow: the text gets smaller only when it doesn’t fit. It never gets bigger.
   • Best fit: the text gets bigger or smaller so it fills the box.
   • Grow text box to fit: the box gets taller and the text keeps its size. New text boxes start with this option.

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Here is the same box after choosing Shrink on overflow:

Make room by hand

If you’d rather keep the text size you chose:

• Make the box bigger. Drag a handle on its edge.
• Use smaller spacing. In the Text tab, lower Line spacing or After ¶ under Spacing, or lower Inset from edges under Text fit.
• Turn on Hyphenate long words so long words can break at the end of a line.
• Use two or more columns with Columns if the box is wide. See Columns, drop caps and WordArt.
• Shorten the text.

Continue the story in another box

For a newsletter article that should carry on elsewhere, click Autoflow… next to Text doesn’t fit in this box. Korva adds linked boxes on the following pages until all of it fits. To choose the next box yourself, see Link text boxes.

If it still doesn’t work