Question: I have a chunk of text I need to paste into Illustrator. No matter what I do, I can't resize the text area without scaling the text. I want to resize the area and have the text wrap (font size to remain the same).

How can I do this? I'm using CS5.1

Answer: 
OK, here goes. 

If you have already type some text using the type tool and selected this text using `Selection Tool`(the black arrow), you will see something like this

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TM0x3.png)

have you notice the rightmost circle?

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3l66t.png)

just move the cursor on to this circle, double click it, and you'll see this

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cj6Pk.png)

OK, now you can adjust the border of this text box without shrinking the characters, but it takes two steps, first

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WBx1T.png)

to notice there is a ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/j5nxs.png) which means there are some text hidden. Then, second step increase the height of the box, the word "here" automatically wrapped to the second line.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3Edr.png)
Here's a great article, **["Make Illustrator behave!"](http://www.creativepro.com/article/make-illustrator-behave-)** that explains it all in in full. 

Figuring out under what circumstances Illustrator scales the many types of text object and when it scales the bounding box, wrapping the text, is a common frustration.

The differences between the different types of text object in Illustrator are brilliant once you've mastered and made sense of them, but massively frustrating until you do so... 

I really recommend taking some time out to go through that article in full.