Alternatively, click Draw Text Box to manually draw a rectangle anywhere in the document. Once you've created your text box, just click on its inside to start writing in it.

But you’re in luck if you’re willing to add sections to the document. In a subsequent article, I’ll show you how to color the background of all the pages in a section with one rectangle.

In Microsoft Word, you can insert built-in or custom fields into your Word document that may change within your document. Learn how to insert a Text field in Word.

Adjusting an image in Microsoft Word You aren’t stuck with the image size as it is inserted. When you click an image in a Word document, a box with circles along the line appears.