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The look and feel of your presentation has
a lot to do with the individual choices you

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make when working with text. That includes
things like formatting, adding text boxes

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to your slides, and modifying text boxes to
change their size and location.

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Just like placeholders, text boxes are a place
for you to enter, edit, and display text.

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In fact, a placeholder IS a kind of text box
- the only difference is that placeholders

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often contain specific formatting (like this
title placeholder) because they're part of

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the slide layout. Inserting extra text boxes
allows you to add to the layout, so you can

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include as much text as you like. Why don't
we see what we can do to finish the last slide

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of this presentation?

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To insert a text box, you'll want to go to
the Insert tab, and then the Text Box command.

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Your cursor will look like a tiny upside-down
cross as long as the command is active. Now

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you can click, hold, and drag to draw your
text box release your mouse, and you're

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ready to type. I'm going to type the letters
S T A R for "Study, Take notes, Ask questions,

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and Review with a friend."

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The default text isn't quite how I want it,
so I'm going to take advantage of some of

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the formatting options in the Font group.
How about Bold, a different font color, a

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different font, and a much larger size - 80
should do it.

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Now I'd like to experiment with the options
in the Paragraph group. How do you think the

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text would look if it were going in a different
direction? Click the Text Direction command,

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and in addition to Horizontal (or normal),
you can choose from Rotated, or Stacked. I

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think I'd like to rotate the text this way.
I'll admit, this doesn't look right but

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maybe if we resize the text box using one
of these sizing handles - just click, hold

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and drag. You can do this with any text box
or placeholder. Much better! It fits perfectly.

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Moving a text box or placeholder is just as
easy. Position your mouse on the edge (notice

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how the cursor changes) and again, click,
hold, and drag to get your text box exactly

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where you want it go.

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This slide is really coming together. One
of the last things I'd to show you is how

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to change the alignment of your text. Aside
from Left, Center, Right, and Justified (which

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can be used to align paragraphs), you can
also click the Align Text command to position

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your text at the at the Top, Middle, or Bottom
of the box. Aligning this text at the top

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right should give it some nice graphic impact.

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Now for the finishing touch - adding bullets.
I thought I'd point out the command before

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we start working with lists later in their
own separate lesson. All you have to do is

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select the text or the text box that you want
to format, then click the Bullets command.

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And there we go! What a difference it makes
for your presentation to know how to work

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with text, including modifying text boxes,
and formatting.