I’ve been working with Illustrator for a while now (ever since the downfall of Freehand) but have never really understood why my text box would not resize without resizing my text. It got me so frustrated I’d delete the text draw the text box to the size I needed and then start again, after which the text box would resize without resizing the text.
Today I took some time to look into this and thanks to a post by Craig on graphicdesignforum.com I have an answer.
If you simply click and type, your text will [resize the text when you resize the box]. However, if you create a text box and type, it will allow you to resize the text box without resizing the text.
Thank you Craig. You’ve made mad woman sane!
(Ed) Photoshop has been giving me the same problem and I’ve identified that that the tool selected when editing the text box influences the resize behaviour. With the text tool selected the box will resize leaving the text with its dimensions and when the move tool is selected the both the box and text is resized.