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Unless the text block has been locked, you can manipulate it with the text block tool. Simply select the tool, then click the shape: any moves or changes you make affect the text block and not the underlying shape.<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/01_w05/831030/text-block-tool.PNG" target="_blank" title="text block (3 KB)"><img alt="text block" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 137px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/01_w05/831030/text-block-tool.PNG" /></a>
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Unless the text block has been locked, you can manipulate it with the text block tool. Simply select the tool, then click the shape: any moves or changes you make affect the text block and not the underlying shape.text blockhttps://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2014/01_w05/831030/text-block-tool.PNG

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FYI: The control-handle-text is a nicety built into some shapes, but not all of them. Networking shapes have it (although it is partially broken in Visio 2013), flowchart shapes don't (since the text usually lives &quot;inside the box&quot;).
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FYI: The control-handle-text is a nicety built into some shapes, but not all of them. Networking shapes have it (although it is partially broken in Visio 2013), flowchart shapes don't (since the text usually lives "inside the box").

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Is there any way for me to add the control-handle-text to my custom-built shapes? &nbsp;I really like them and I want to place them into my own custom-built shapes.<br />
That's my ultimate goal in asking.
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Is there any way for me to add the control-handle-text to my custom-built shapes?  I really like them and I want to place them into my own custom-built shapes.
That's my ultimate goal in asking.

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I am using a stencil and after I entered text I saw there was no &quot;reposition text handle&quot; &nbsp;I don't think this stencil has one. &nbsp;How can I create one for this shape?
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I am using a stencil and after I entered text I saw there was no "reposition text handle"  I don't think this stencil has one.  How can I create one for this shape?

Visio 2013 - Reposition Text handle - Where is it?

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