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blends, and borders. When you draw a text box, picture box, or no-content box,
the available controls correspond to the box type you create. But you can import
text into picture boxes that contain pictures, and you can import pictures into
text boxes that contain text. In addition to changing content type, you can
change the shape and other attributes of a box.
Creating text and picture boxes
There are three ways to create boxes:
To create a no-content box (a box that can be changed into a picture box or a ●
text box), click and drag with the Rectangle Box tool , the Oval Box tool , or
the Starburst tool . You can declare text content by pressing T as you draw
a no-content box. You can declare picture content by pressing R as you draw
a no-content box.
To create a rectangular text or picture box, click and drag with the Text ●
Content tool or Picture Content tool .
To create a Bézier box, use the Bézier pen tool . For more information, see ●
“Creating Bézier boxes.”
To constrain rectangular boxes to squares and oval boxes to circles, press 
Shift while you drag.
You can create boxes with the following tools:
To change a no-content box into a text box, press Command+E/Ctrl+E and
import a text file.
To change a no-content box into a picture box, press Command+E/Ctrl+E and
import a picture file.
You can change the corner type of rectangular boxes to rounded, concave, and
beveled corners using the Item > Shape submenu or the Box Corner Style drop-
down menu in the Measurements palette. You can add and alter rounded
corners by entering values in the Box Corner Radius field in the Home tab of the
Measurements palette. Any attributes you apply to one box (borders, colors
etc.) can be copied and applied to any other existing box using the Item Form
Painter tool on the Tool palette. see “Copying attributes from one box to
another.”
Creating Bézier boxes
The Bézier Pen tool lets you draw multi-sided Bézier boxes and lines that can
have straight and curved line segments (see “Understanding Bézier shapes“).
For another way to make uniquely shaped boxes, see “ShapeMaker.” 
To draw a Bézier box: