Like most of the fancier border effects, you can access gradient border settings in the Format Picture pane, by going to Picture Format | Picture Border | Weight | More Lines. All Rights Reserved.Word and PowerPoint allow you to not only put a colored border around a picture, instead try a pretty gradient effect for single color or multi-colored rainbow effects. If you want to add text just select the shape and start typing.
Most autoshapes also function as text boxes. 20pts is probably about the smallest you want to use.Īny empty textboxes will not appear in a slide show. It turns each top level bullet point into individual slides and subpoints into bullets on corresponding new slidesĪvoid using a small font for your text. This automatically breaks a crowded slide into multiple slides for a cleaner more organised presentation. This will split the text across a group of new slides. When a slide looks too crowded, Tools > Expand Slide. This is a useful feature if you are trying to cram a lot of information into a slide show. (Edit tab, Drag and drop text editing) - Moves or copies selected text when you drag it with the mouse.
(Edit tab, When selecting, automatically select entire words) - Automatically selects an entire word plus the space after the word when you select part of the word. (Ctrl + T) - Displays the (Format > Font) dialog box. (Ctrl + ] ) - Increase the font size to the next size in the drop-down list.
(Ctrl + Spacebar) - Removes any manual character formatting from the current selection. This allows you to select the text object and start typing. Whenever you move the mouse cursor over a text object, the cursor changes from an arrow to a vertical beam. If you select a block of text first, then the Delete and Backspace keys both delete the selection. To delete from the cursor location to the start or end of the line use the Ctrl key in combination with the Delete or Backspace keys respectively. You can delete by pressing Delete or Backspace Home - takes you to the start of the lineĬtrl + Arrow keys to move around quickly between whole words You can move around your paragraph of text in the familiar ways. In type over mode each character that is typed replaces an existing character. When you are in insert mode any characters that you type are inserted at the cursor location You can switch between "insert mode" and "type over" mode by pressing the Insert key It is important to remember that the bullet character is part of the paragraph format and cannot be typed directly as a character. Refer to the Bullets and numbering for more details
The default bullet is a square box although this can be easily changed. Text is usually formatted with a bullet character at the beginning of every paragraph. Press Enter only when you need to start a new paragraph. Text is automatically wrapped so you do not have to press Enter at the end of every line. Objects can be distributed and spaced evenly horizontally or vertically and they can also be aligned relative to the slide itself. To change a selection of text select the text first and then select (Format > Font) To reposition the text elsewhere on the slide click outside the text area then click on text and a shaded border will appear.Ĭlick on the text box and a shaded outline will appear. To create an extra textbox you can use the textbox button on the Drawing toolbar. Textboxes can be manually added using the Drawing toolbar but the text will not appear in the Outline pane. You can insert a textbox using the textbox button on the Drawing toolbar click where you want one corner and drag to the opposite corner.
There are also placeholders for other objects as well including charts, tables, clip art etc.Ī text box is a special type of shape that is designed to place text on your slides. The placeholders will contain the slide title and the slide text for this slide. The boxes with dotted outlines that appear when you first insert a new slide are called placeholders When you deleted everything from a text placeholder the default message "click to add. To use a text placeholder just click in it and start typingĪ text placeholder is just a special type of text box.Īnything you type will automatically appear in the Outline pane (and visa versa)