the look and feel of your presentation
has a lot to do with the individual
choices you make when working with text
that includes things like formatting
adding text boxes to your slides and
modifying text boxes to change their
size and location just like placeholders
text boxes are placed for you to enter
edit and display text in fact a
placeholder is a kind of text box the
only difference is that placeholders
often contain specific formatting like
this title placeholder because they're
part of the slide layout inserting extra
text boxes allows you to add to the
layout so you can include as much text
as you like why don't we see what we can
do to finish the last slide of this
presentation to insert a text box you'll
want to go to the insert tab and then
the text box command your cursor will
look like a tiny upside-down cross as
long as the command is active now you
can click hold and drag to draw your
text box release your mouse and you're
ready to type I'm going to type the
letters s T a R for study take notes ask
questions and review with a friend the
default text isn't quite how I want it
so I'm going to take advantage of some
of the formatting options in the font
group how about bold a different font
color a different font and a much
larger-sized 80 should do it now I'd
like to experiment with the options in
the paragraph group how do you think the
text would look if it were going in a
different direction click the text
Direction command and in addition to
horizontal or normal you can choose from
rotated or stacked I think I'd like to
rotate the text this way I'll admit this
doesn't look right but maybe if we
resize the text box using one of these
sizing handles just click hold and drag
you can do this with any text box or
placeholder much better it fits
perfectly moving a text box or
placeholder is just as easy position
your mouse on the edge notice how the
cursor changes and again click hold and
drag to get your text box exactly where
you want it to go this slide is really
coming together one of the last things
I'd like to show you is how to change
the alignment of your text aside from
left center right and justified which
can be used to align paragraphs you can
also click the align text command to
position your text at the top middle or
bottom of the box aligning this text at
the top right should give it some nice
graphic impact now for the finishing
touch
adding bullets I thought I'd point out
the command before we start working with
lists later in their own separate lesson
all you have to do is select the text or
the text box that you want to format
then click the bullets command and there
we go what a difference it makes for
your presentation to know how to work
with text including modifying text boxes
and formatting
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