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Once text has been created in text boxes on a slide, the text box can be treated, in many ways, as if it were a graphic object. You can move text boxes around and rotate them, apply drop shadows and graphic fills, and change the opacity of the text. For more about those topics, see Chapter 5, and remember that the same tools can be applied equally to graphics and text boxes. There's another useful text manipulation you can do, and that is to layer text boxes with the other elements on the slide. Imagine that each element—text, graphics, movies, shapes , etc.—on the slide is in its own layer on the slide, with the master slide making up the layer that's in the back. You can move each element forward or back in the stack. It's possible to get some interesting results by layering, as shown in Figure 4.8 . Figure 4.8. The text behind the snowboarder was created, rotated , then sent behind the snowboarder and behind the picture cutout for added effect.
To layer text boxes
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