How to Add Text Boxes in PowerPoint
There are some distinctions between text placeholders and text boxes in PowerPoint. Almost everything else works the same way when it comes to formatting text placeholders and text boxes.Adding a Text Box
- Launch PowerPoint and open your presentation.
- Choose the slide to which you want to add text.
- Select Text Box from the Text group on the Insert tab. You can also use Alt + N to go to the Insert tab and then Alt + X to create a text box.
Draw a text box now by clicking and dragging. When you're satisfied with the size of the text box, release the mouse button. You can reposition the text box. Drag it to its new location when the pointer changes to a four-headed arrow.
You can also choose the Text Box option from the Shapes drop-down gallery, which you can access from the Home or Insert tabs of the Ribbon.
- Use the Font group's options to change the font, size, or color of the text.
- To change the alignment, use the Paragraph group's settings.
- Use the Drawing group's options to change the fill color, outline color, or apply effects such as a shadow.
Adding the Same Text to Multiple Slides
If you have several slides with the same layout and want to add the same text to all of them in the same place, you can do so as long as they are all derived from the same layout master.Start PowerPoint and open your presentation.
Select a slide to which you want to add text.
Proceed to the master slides. To do so, select Slide Master from the Master Views group on the View tab.
The master editor view will be displayed. The layout master from which your chosen slide is derived will be selected by default.
Select Text Box from the Text group on the Insert tab.
Now, by clicking and dragging, create a text box.
Enter the desired text here.
Move and Resize
• Drag the text box's sizing handle to the desired size.
• Notice how the text inside the text box moves around as it is resized.
• Click and drag the text box's edge to reposition it.