Crystal Reports for Rational Application Developer Designer Guide
Working with text objects
You will use many of the capabilities of text objects when creating form letters. A brief discussion of text objects should make it easier for you to create the form letter in the next section. Some things to consider are:
A text object can contain both text and fields; you will use both in this example.
You can resize text objects; you will be resizing the text object so that it prints as a letter.