How to Draw Horizontal Text Box and Vertical Text Box in Visio?

In this article, we will draw horizontal text boxes as well as vertical text boxes in Visio. The text box is very important to convey a message to the audience. Mostly, we draw a horizontal text box, and somehow we draw a vertical text box in Visio also in other software. 

We can notice two types of text horizontal text and vertical text. The heading is horizontal, and two paragrams and their heading. And we can see that mostly used horizontal text in our presentation and somehow we insert vertical text.

Now we will see how we can draw horizontal text and vertical text.

Go to the Insert tab > Text. We can see at first there is a Text Box.

If we want to expand these options then we can see more options related to the text box.

1. Draw Horizontal Text Box
2. Draw Vertical Text Box

If we want to draw a Horizontal text box then we will select the Horizontal text box from the Insert tab. If we want to insert a vertical text box then we will select the vertical text box.

First of all, we are going with a horizontal text box. Just click on it then our cursor will change into plus sing along with three lines show a paragraph. Where you want to insert horizontal text then just click and draw in that area.

After clicking on the area we can see a white background will appear on that area and our cursor will blink and that write down text on that text box.

We are going to write "About Us!" in that heading as we are going to write down the heading on this area.

We can see that text is inserted in that area about we can see that text size is small not according to heading size.

We can increase Text size and text color from the Home tab then  Font we can see there are many options like font, increase the font size, decrease font size, and font color.

After applying these changes to that text now we can see text.

For the vertical text box select Vertical Text Box from the Text group then drag where we want to insert a text box. Same process for Vertical Text Box as we have already performed for the Horizontal Text Box. After inserting the vertical text box we can see.

In this way, we can insert a Horizontal text box as well as a vertical text box in Visio.