before we finish discussing some of the
font commands let me show you two great
commands the increase and decrease font
size commands these commands just lets
you gradually increase and decrease the
fonts of selected text you may be
thinking but why wouldn't I just use the
font size menu it's true that you can
change the font size that way but in
PowerPoint you'll find that designing
slides is really about figuring out what
looks good on the slide and squeaking
and changing little things from slide to
slide and sometimes that means making
text a little bigger or a little smaller
these commands let you do that easily
now before we leave the slide I want to
show you the alignment commands in the
paragraph group you can use the
alignment commands to align text in a
certain area let's select a title text
and click through the alignment commands
so you can see how they work this is the
align text right command center and
align text left command you also have
this justify commands and it works for
paragraphs of text and makes the left
and right margins equal one thing to
notice is that the alignment commands
aligns the text within the placeholder
or text box that it's in and not across
the slide so far we've been working with
placeholders but you can also insert
text into text boxes text boxes work
just like placeholders but they only
hold text and not other items such as
pictures and charts text boxes really
allow you to add to the predefined
layouts
so that you can place text wherever you
want even if there isn't a layout that
exactly meets your needs to insert a
text box select the insert tab on the
ribbon then click the text box commands
in the text group your cursor will turn
into a crosshair just click your mouse
anywhere on the slide wherever you want
the text box will appear and while
holding down the mouse button drag your
mouse across until the text box is the
desired width and then release the mouse
button okay so now you have your text
box you can just insert your text and
when I press Enter the text box height
increases and I can add more text I
really don't want this text box at the
top of my slide to move it click the
text box and your cursor becomes a
crosshair with arrows on each end while
holding down the mouse button drag the
text box to the desired location on the
page and then release the button you can
also move the text box in different
directions just click the green circle
and rotate the text box to the left or
the right the squares are resizing
handles just click one of the squares on
the left or the right side hold down the
mouse button and drag the mouse until
the box is the desired width then
release the mouse button sometimes you
will need to resize a text box if you
want to increase your font size or make
other formatting changes before we wrap
up talking about text let's take a look
at how you can move text from place to
place
I'm going to show you how to use the
copy and paste commands let's say I want
to copy this quote on slide one and put
it on slide two just select the text and
then click the copy command on the Home
tab now I can paste this text on this
slide or any other slide since I wanted
on site two I'll just click that slide
in the tasks pane and place my insertion
points wherever I want the text to
appear now just click the paste commands
on the Home tab and there you go the
text you copied now appears on slide two
I actually want to delete that so I'll
click undo on the quick access toolbar
well that wraps up the basics when it
comes to formatting and editing text and
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