Resize Text Bounding Box

[Brian2025]

Exactly how does one change the size of the text bounding box, without scaling the text or changing the font size?

I have a method now, but it is very inconvenient. I am looking for something to improve workflow.

[warehousewinemakers]

This is exactly how I handle this very frustrating situation. Area Text is manipulatable, as one's intuition would tell them, but point text is not. It is easy to accidentally use point text, though.

[Sighnofourtimes]

As per the two most recent replies above:

In case anyone finds this thread and is still looking for the solution, there is a difference between clicking once on the page with the text tool selected and clicking and dragging a text box with the same tool.

(1) Clicking once on the page and then typing creates a block that scales the text when you move a point on the bounding box. You cannot change the size of this block later on without it affecting the scale of the text.

(2) Clicking and dragging to make a rectangular text block gives you a text box that you can resize without scaling the text – resulting in reflowed text. You cannot scale the text contained in this block later on using the bounding box handles though – you will have to perform scaling numerically and / or using the scale tool. Remember to position the anchor point in the top left when scale while maintaining position or else the text will scale from the centre outwards.

The answer to the original question is therefore: Click and drag a text block if you want to be able to change the size and shape of the block using the bounding box later on.