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I am trying to change a text box on my Affinity Designer document.  When ever I try, the text stretches and/or changes size / shape.  It there a key that I can hold down to keep text from changing size and only change the text frame?  Please do tell!

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Hi KCinA2,

Welcome to the forums :)

This depends on the tool used to insert the text, the Artistic Text Tool will always resize your text to the frame size, however with the Frame Text Tool you can reflow the text if you use the frame bounding box handles or scale it if you use the detached handle on the bottom right of the text frame.

I hope this helps!

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On top of what Dan said, you can also convert artistic text to frame text. To do that, highlight the text and copy it, and then use any other tool to paste it. That will maintain the size of the artistic text in a frame.

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5 hours ago, AdamRatai said:

Thanks for an answer. My question is:  What kind of "artist" deforming font that way? That should not be allowed, or at least not as a default. I vote for renaming  it to "Bad Artist Text Tool" ;).
 

It's uncommon, but I personally find it very beneficial that way. I like to "start off" with the right size so I can see beforehand how it would match the design. But hey, everyone is different. 😊

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9 minutes ago, dinah said:

I am struggling to re size a text box - I have followed all suggestions but seems impossible - not a problem in quark 

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

It would help to have at least a screenshot of the complete application window, with the text visible on-screen and in the Layers panel. And more information on what steps you're taking to resize the box. A screen recording that shows the problem could also be useful if you can provide one.

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this is difficult to do as full of personal information but I think I have understood that if you set something up on a master page you cannot change it on subsequent pages - instead you have to set up a different master page or use a blank - is that correct?

thanks for getting back 

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27 minutes ago, dinah said:

I think I have understood that if you set something up on a master page you cannot change it on subsequent pages - instead you have to set up a different master page or use a blank - is that correct?

No. You can always select the Master Page layer on the document page and use Edit Detached.

28 minutes ago, dinah said:

this is difficult to do as full of personal information

Can you replace the text with something that's not personal, and show us using that?

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