Putting text on a path

- I get asked this question all the time.…How do I get text on a path instead of inside it?…For example, look at this little graphic down here.…Let's zoom in with the Command Spacebar…or Control Spacebar drag mark key trick.…That zooms right in on it.…And I can see that I have text going around this circle.…How did I do that?…Well, I have another one of these over on my pasteboard…and I'm just going to scroll over to the right…until I can see it.…There we go.…I'd like to put this text on top of this frame,…the circular frame, and then I'm going to move…the frame on top of that graphic.…

I'll go back and grab my normal Type Tool.…But if I put my Type Tool on top of this frame,…I get a cursor indicating that if I click,…the text is gonna go into this frame,…and that in fact is what happens.…The text goes into the frame.…Let's go ahead and undo that.…Command Z or Control Z a couple of times.…Now, even if I put the text cursor right on the edge…of the frame, it still won't work.…That's because the Type Tool can only put text into a frame,…