This will stretch the box, or collapse it, altering the text inside the box. The way to do this is to double click in the hollow square on the lower right-hand corner of the blue select box. How to incorporate these elements into layer design By this time you've already learned how useful the layer palette can be in the process of tracing and drawing maps. For example, to show the ocean around an island or coastline, you can draw a shaded box representing the water and then draw the coastline on a layer on top of the water. Otherwise you'd have to create two complex interlocking regions, one for land and one for sea.
Layers are equally convenient for labeling maps.
You'll probably want to make a new layer just for the typographical elements of your map, including symbols, titles, labels, etc. You'll also want to put these in one of the highest layers of your map, so that they aren't blocked by pieces of the drawing. Lines and shading, of course, though they have important symbolic functions, are part of the drawing itself and will be on the lower layers, where you've drawn the rivers, provinces, etc. As your file gets bigger, for example, you won't be able to fit it onto a floppy disk. More importantly, however, you may not be able to print your map on a regular laser printer.