Handy Adobe Illustrator script that will Convert Illustrator Point/Path Text to Area Text as well as a script to do the opposite.
Adobe Illustrator offers no way at all to convert between these two kinds of type objects, which is insane.
See Mordy Golding’s post over at Creative Pro for a well-explained and easy to understand description of the differences between the types of text objects in Adobe Illustrator.
The Overthinker 