Click the "Text Box" button on the Ribbon and choose the first option, "Simple Text Box." Position the cursor on the Word page and drag to form the size of the box.

Don’t worry, it’s beyond simple to use. This notepad trick works because of HTML’s “contenteditable” attribute that can turn any part of a web page into an interactive area for editing text.

Google Docs provides a couple of simple ways to get that text box in your document. Insert a text box using the Drawing tool. To insert a text box in Google Docs using the drawing tool, ...