

Home - takes you to the start of the lineĬtrl + Arrow keys to move around quickly between whole words You can move around your paragraph of text in the familiar ways. In type over mode each character that is typed replaces an existing character. When you are in insert mode any characters that you type are inserted at the cursor location You can switch between "insert mode" and "type over" mode by pressing the Insert key It is important to remember that the bullet character is part of the paragraph format and cannot be typed directly as a character. Refer to the Bullets and numbering for more details The default bullet is a square box although this can be easily changed.

Text is usually formatted with a bullet character at the beginning of every paragraph. Press Enter only when you need to start a new paragraph. Text is automatically wrapped so you do not have to press Enter at the end of every line. Objects can be distributed and spaced evenly horizontally or vertically and they can also be aligned relative to the slide itself. To change a selection of text select the text first and then select (Format > Font) To reposition the text elsewhere on the slide click outside the text area then click on text and a shaded border will appear.Ĭlick on the text box and a shaded outline will appear. To create an extra textbox you can use the textbox button on the Drawing toolbar. Textboxes can be manually added using the Drawing toolbar but the text will not appear in the Outline pane. You can insert a textbox using the textbox button on the Drawing toolbar click where you want one corner and drag to the opposite corner. There are also placeholders for other objects as well including charts, tables, clip art etc.Ī text box is a special type of shape that is designed to place text on your slides. The placeholders will contain the slide title and the slide text for this slide. The boxes with dotted outlines that appear when you first insert a new slide are called placeholders When you deleted everything from a text placeholder the default message "click to add. To use a text placeholder just click in it and start typingĪ text placeholder is just a special type of text box.Īnything you type will automatically appear in the Outline pane (and visa versa)
