Resize Text Box Without Changing Text Size PS 2023 (im going to freak out)

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August 25, 2023
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It used to be so easy, you'd just toggle that little button by the text. Now, every time I try to change the size on the text box, it will only resize the text. All the answers I see are for older versions of Photoshop. How do I do this in PS 2023?

macOS

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Conrad_C

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If the text cursor is active in the text container, dragging a text bounding box handle scales the container, not the text.

If the text cursor is not active in the text container (and it has a bounding box because Edit > Free Transform was chosen), dragging a bounding box handle scales the container and the text together.

jane-e

Community Expert

@maksim unltd

In addition to what Conrad said,

When you click to create text, it is Point text. Dragging the box resizes the text.
When you drag to create a text frame, then type, it is Paragraph type. Dragging the frame resizes the frame, not the text.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/add-edit-text.html

You can convert between Point and Paragraph type: