WPS Demo Tutorial: Character and use of text placeholder

A placeholder is a placeholder symbol, a box with a dashed or hatched edge, often appearing in a template in a presentation, such as a text placeholder, a table placeholder, a chart placeholder, a media placeholder, and a picture placeholder.

After the text placeholder occupies position, you can add content to it. Text placeholders appear as a virtual box on the slide, with the words "Click here to add title" Inside the dotted box, and after the left mouse button is clicked, the prompt automatically disappears, and a vertical bar displays the cursor position where the user can enter the content.

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Text that you enter within a text placeholder can be previewed in outline view and varies by level.

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Users can manipulate text by selecting it in outline view. Changing font size settings directly in all presentations is an advantage of text placeholders; text that you enter by inserting a text box cannot appear in outline view, and you cannot use outline view for bulk formatting operations.

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Users can also use templates to directly change text formatting in all presentations, similar to outline operations, by manipulating in a template.

Changes to text placeholders

To modify a text placeholder on a slide, click to select a text placeholder for the action. For example, delete, select the text placeholder and press the keyboard delete key to delete it directly; To modify the text placeholder for the entire presentation, perform the view-master-slide Master command, open master view, and click the selected text placeholder for the action. For example, delete, select the text placeholder, press the keyboard delete key to delete directly, and all of the text placeholder corresponding to delete.

Text Placeholder Recovery

With the slide plate redesign text placeholder, apply the user needs of the slide plate, there are three choices, as shown: You can select "Apply to Selected slides", "reapply style" or "Insert new slide" one of them, and do the appropriate action. You can also delete extra text placeholders.

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Position of text placeholder

By selecting the text placeholder, double-click, and open the Format Object dialog box, you can manipulate options such as color and line, size, position, and text boxes.

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Text placeholders are not replicable and do not have text placeholder properties after copying, so note that copying the second text placeholder add animations to both the original text placeholder and the copied text placeholder, and you can see that its name has changed to "Rectangle ..." and that the copied text placeholder does not appear in outline view.

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With the text placeholder input, you can automatically change the font size to fit the text placeholder space, and can automatically wrap; the text size entered in the Insert text box does not change, and can only be wrapped automatically.

Insert an empty text box, as shown in the figure:

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In outline view, text placeholders and text boxes that do not enter text cannot display content, but in the editing window, text placeholders are visible and empty text boxes are not visible.

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When creating a template, the text placeholder action embodies the user's design ideas and plays a role in planning the slide structure. With text placeholder settings to pave the way for creating a presentation, using a text placeholder is a good habit of designing your presentation.