Newbie trying to resize a text box

[DavidRock]

I'm new to Illustrator but I usually pick up on this stuff fairly quickly. However for the life of me I can't figure out how to resize a text box after I've created it except by doing a Transform and Scale and entering in a percent. When I do that it's changes the size of the text as well as the box. I don't know how large to initially draw the boxes based on the text I'm going to type s I have to conclude I'm missing something fundamental. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

 

[DavidRock]

BTW, I'm using Illustrator 10 on Windows.

Thanks

 

[dimoj]

Hi David

Probably what you have missed is that the Bounding Box must be showing. Ctrl+Shift+B on the PC to show/hide bounding box. Then you can use the selection tool (v) to resize the text box without resizing the text.