Use this control in Property Inspector (PI):

https://imgur.com/a/BCdPKxb

FYI, the box with "Point Text" is a tooltip, but moue wasn't captured in screenshot.

I'm in the same boat as Brian B. How do you do this?

I'm in latest Windows version, not seeing an option in right click or appearance tweaking panel, tried right-clicking in library item as well.

Can I buy a clue of how this switching is actually performed "in the November release of XD"? Thanks!

When from point text back to text area, the paragraph becomes broken up into to individual lines that have to be put back together. Is there an option where the point text could return to the text area type?

Feature complete! Thanks guys!

This feature really huge time saver for me, Many thanks to XD team.

The use of different type of formats is more relevant when we look at the way they behave when part of a group, or a component that you are designing as responsive.

Point text will resize by point size; meaning it becomes higher or smaller text size, while area text will keep the point size, and only wrap the box to accommodate to the new width.

While the first one may be a good use for big titles, that you want to convert from Desktop to Tablet or to phone, small titles and body copy should wrap around as a responsive behavior.

Also, definitely +1 on "fit to content."

Just look at how sketch does it ;) That would be a great improvement.

+ability to double-click to resize text area to fit contents

So in essence this would be to convert type to area type, or convert area type to just type. Sweeeet!

Yes, would love this, I use it a lot in illustrator. When selecting a line of type in illustrator, under the 'text' menu there is the option to 'convert to area type'. I appreciate this is not top priority, it's just one of those little things that makes working life more efficient... Thanks

Sorry...point text* to text box.

Would be great to be able to convert text from paragraph text to a text box like in PS.