Entering Text

In Normal view, you can type text directly into the text placeholders. A text placeholder is an empty text box. If you type more text than fits in the placeholder, the text is automatically resized to fit on the slide. You can also manually increase or decrease the line spacing or font size of the text. The insertion point (the blinking vertical line) indicates where text will appear when you type. To place the insertion point into your text, move the pointer over the text. The pointer changes to an I-beam to indicate that you can click and then type. When a selection box of slanted lines appears, your changes affect only the selected text. When a dotted selection box appears, changes apply to the entire text object.

Enter Text into a Placeholder

In Normal view, click the text placeholder if it isn't already selected.

Type the text you want to enter.

Click outside the text object to deselect it.

Insert Text

Click to place the insertion point where you want to insert the text.

Type the text.

Enter Text in a Bulleted List

In Normal view, click the bulleted text placeholder.

Type the first bulleted item.

Press Enter.

Type the next bulleted item.

Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you complete the list.

Did You Know?

You can use the insertion point to determine text location . When entering bulleted text, be sure the insertion point is at the beginning of the line, and then press Tab to indent a level or press Shift+Tab to move back out a level.

Adjust Paragraph Line Spacing

Click anywhere in the paragraph you want to adjust.

Click the Format menu, and then click Line Spacing.

Set the spacing options that you want.

Click OK.

Did You Know?

You should use caution when you adjust line spacing . When you decrease paragraph spacing, make sure you leave enough space for the height of each entire letter, including extenders such as the bottom of "p" and the top of "b."