PowerPoint2007 How to add text

PowerPoint2007 How to add text

Add text to the following areas of the slide:

Placeholder placeholder: A box with a dashed or shaded border that is in most of the slide layouts. Within these boxes you can place headings and body text, or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures. )

Shape

text box text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. With a text box, you can place several blocks of text on one page, or make text in a different direction from other text in the document. )

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1, the text in a placeholder

2, used as a title text box

3, the text in the arrow shape

Add body or title text to a placeholder

Slide layouts contain text and objects (objects: tables, charts, graphs, equal signs, or other forms of information) that are grouped in various forms. For example, an object created in one application, if linked or embedded in another program, is an OLE object. ) placeholder. You can type headings, subheadings, and body text in text and object placeholders.

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A dotted border represents a placeholder that contains the title text of a slide.

To add body or caption text to a placeholder on a slide, do the following:

Click in the text placeholder, and then type or paste the text.

Note: If your text is larger than the size of the placeholder, PowerPoint reduces the font size and line spacing as you type text so that the text adapts to the placeholder size.

Add text to a shape

Shapes such as squares, circles, callout balloons, and arrows can contain text. When you type text in a shape, the text is attached to the shape and moved and rotated with the shape. You can also overwrite text that is independent of the shape and does not move with the shape.

Add text as part of a shape

To add text that becomes part of a shape, select the shape, and then type or paste the text.

Add text that is independent of the shape

To add text that does not move with the shape, add a text box, and then type or paste the text.

Add a text box

On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box.

Note If you are using an East Asian language, click the horizontal text box or vertical text box alignment from the text box drop-down menu.

Click the slide, and then drag the pointer to draw the text box.

Add text to a text box

Use a text box to place text anywhere on a slide, such as outside a text placeholder. For example, you can create a text box and place it next to a picture (Picture: A file that can be ungrouped and manipulated as two or more objects, such as a metafile), or as a single object (such as a bitmap). ) to add a title. In addition, using a text box is handy if you want to add text to a shape but do not want the text to be attached to a shape. You can add borders, fills, shadows, or three-dimensional effects to text in a text box.

To add text to a text box, click inside the text box, and then type or paste the text.