Autoshape default

[Ann]

I use text boxes and drawing shapes a lot in my job and up
until now, no problem. Now when I try to insert a text
box it will go to only one size (about 4" x 6")instead of
being able to grab the handles and size to what I want. I
have also found (out of curiosity anf frustration) that if
I go to a previous document that I have created (before
this problem) and it includes a text box or drawing shape
and I click on it and try to change it will go to the size
that it is going to currently (4" x 6"), am I right in
presuming that the default has been changed or reset
(presumably by me by accident). How do I get back to me
being in charge of sizing to what I want. Please help.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Is the text box inline? If so, you won't be able to make it wider than
margin width, which is 6" by default. Double-click to bring up the Format
Text Box dialog and change the wrapping to, say, Square.