Setting Editing Options

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PowerPoint provides advanced options that make editing text and working with objects easier. For example, PowerPoint can help you automatically select an entire word and allow text to be dragged and dropped. When you cut, copy, and paste text and objects, PowerPoint provides options that automatically adjust word spacing when you paste text with Smart Cut and Paste and Show Paste Options buttons when they are needed. When you use the Cut or Copy and Paste commands to move a slide to a new location, Paste Options button appears, allowing you to control how your slide appears after you paste it.

Set Editing Options

Click the Office button, and then click PowerPoint Options.

Click Advanced.

Select or deselect the check box options you want turned on or off:

• When selecting, automatically select entire word (default on). Select to have PowerPoint select the entire word when you click a word.

• Allow text to be dragged and dropped (default on). Select to move or copy text by dragging the text.

• Maximum number of undos (default 20). Enter the number of recent changes you want PowerPoint to track.

• Use smart cut and paste (default on). Select to have PowerPoint adjust the spacing of words and objects.

• Show Paste Options buttons (default on). Select to show the Paste Options button alongside text that you paste.

Click OK.