Editing Text in the Slide Pane

The text on your slides resides within boxes (all objects appear on a slide in their own boxes for easy manipulation). As shown in Figure 3.3, to edit text on a slide, click the text box to select it and then click where you want the insertion point moved, or select the text you want to replace.

Figure 3.3. You can edit your text directly on the slide in the Slide pane.

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When you work with the Slide pane, you might want to close the Outline/Slides pane. Just click the pane's Close button (X) to provide the Slide pane with the entire PowerPoint window (refer to Figure 3.3). In Lesson 7, "Adding and Modifying Slide Text," you'll learn more about adding text to a slide, including creating your own text boxes on a slide.

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Opening the Outline Pane If you close the Outline pane to concentrate on the Slide pane, click View, Normal (Restore Panes) to restore it to the application window.


Editing Text in the Outline Pane

The Outline pane provides another way to edit text in a slide. To switch to the Outline view on the Outline/Slides pane, click the Outline tab. You simply click to move the insertion point where you want it (or select the range of text you want to replace) in the outline, and then type your text (see Figure 3.4). If you've placed the insertion point in the slide text (without selecting a range), press the Delete key to delete characters to the right of the insertion point or press the Backspace key to delete characters to the left. If you've selected a range of text, either of these keys deletes the text. If you want to move the highlighted text, simply drag it to where you want it moved.

Figure 3.4. You can edit your text in Outline view.

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Larger Outline You might want to enlarge the Outline pane by dragging its divider to the right in the Normal view.


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Auto Word Select When you select text, PowerPoint selects whole words. If you want to select individual characters, open the Tools menu, select Options , click the Edit tab, and click the When Selecting, Automatically Select Entire Word check box to turn it off. Click OK .


Moving Text in the Outline Pane

As you work in the Normal view, you can also view your presentation slides as an outline using the Outline pane. This provides you with a quick way to move text items around on a slide or move them from slide to slide. Just select the text and drag it to a new position.

As already mentioned, you can also drag text from one slide to another. All you have to do is select a line of text in the Outline pane and drag it to another slide. You can also move a slide in the Outline pane. Drag the slide's icon in the Outline pane to a new position (under the heading for another slide).

If you aren't that confident with your dragging skills, PowerPoint provides you with help in the form of the Outlining toolbar. It provides buttons that make it easy to move text up or down on a slide (with respect to other text on the slide) or to move a slide up or down in the presentation.

To turn on the Outlining toolbar, right-click one of the PowerPoint toolbars and select Outlining . Figure 3.5 shows the Outlining toolbar on the left side of the Outline pane (the Outline pane has also been expanded to take up more of the PowerPoint window).

  • To move a paragraph or text line up in a slide, select it and click the Move Up button.

  • To move a paragraph or text down in a slide, select it and click the Move Down button.

Figure 3.5. You can use the Outlining toolbar to move text and slides in the presentation.

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You can also use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to move entire slides up or down in the presentation. Click the slide's icon and then use the appropriate button (it might take several clicks to move a slide up or down with respect to another slide).

If you want to see how the text is actually formatted on the slides that you are viewing in the Outline pane, click the Show Formatting button on the Outlining toolbar. Viewing the text as it is formatted can help you determine where the text should appear on a slide as you move the text (or whether you will have to reformat the text later).

Rearranging Text in the Outline Pane

As you can see from Figure 3.5, your presentation is organized in a multilevel outline format. The slides are at the top level of the outline, and each slide's contents are subordinate under that slide. Some slides have multiple levels of subordination (for example, a bulleted list within a bulleted list).

You can easily change an object's level in Outline view with the Tab key or the Outlining toolbar:

  • To demote a paragraph in the outline, click the text, and then press the Tab key or click the Demote button on the Outlining toolbar.

  • To promote a paragraph in the outline, click the text, and then press Shift+Tab or click the Promote button on the Outlining toolbar.

In most cases, subordinate items on a slide appear as items in a bulleted list. In Lesson 8, "Creating Columns and Lists," you learn how to change the appearance of the bullet and the size and formatting of text for each entry, as well as how much the text is indented for each level.

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Create Summary Slides in the Outline Pane If you would like to create a summary slide for your presentation that contains the headings from several slides, select those slides in the Outline pane (click the first slide, and then hold down the Shift key and click the last slide you want to select). Then, click the Summary Slide button on the Outlining toolbar. A new slide appears at the beginning of the selected slides containing the headings from the selected slides. You then can position the Summary slide anywhere in the presentation as you would any other slide.




Microsoft Office 2003 All-in-One
Microsoft Office 2003 All-in-One
ISBN: B005HKSHB2
EAN: N/A
Year: 2002
Pages: 660
Authors: Joe Habraken

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