When you click a shape or text place holder

Text boxes and most shapes can include text in them. The text can be positioned horizontally or vertically, and it can appear on one line or wrap to multiple lines. You can change the direction of the text, and you can also change the margins of text boxes and shapes for optimal spacing, or resize shapes for a better text fit. Specify text direction in a shape or text box In a shape or text box, you can change the direction in which text is read. That is, you can pivot text 90 or 270 degrees so that it appears sideways. • Right-click the edge of the shape or text box. • On the shortcut menu, select Format Shape. • In the Format Shape pane, click Size/Layout & Properties . • Under Text Box, select the option that you want in the Text direction list. Rotate (mirror) text in a shape or text box • Right-click the box or shape and select Format Shape. • In the Format Shape pane, select Effects. • Select 3-D Rotation and in the X Rotation or Y Rotation box, enter 180. • (Optional) If your text box is filled with a color, you can remove the color in the Format Shape pane. Select Fill & Line , select Fill, and then select No fill. • (Optional) To remove the text box outline, right-click the text box, select Outline in the mini toolbar that appears, and choose No Outline. When text wraps, it automatically continues on a new line as it reaches the right border of the shape or text box. • Right-click the border of the shape or text box that contains the text you want to wrap. • On th...

Turn Autofit Off or On in PowerPoint Presentations by Avantix Learning Team | Updated March 12, 2021 Applies to: Microsoft ® PowerPoint ® 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 (Windows) You can turn off Autofit to stop PowerPoint from automatically formatting or changing font size in placeholders, text boxes and shapes containing text. Depending on your requirements, you can turn Autofit off using PowerPoint Options, the Format Shape task pane or a Smart Tag. Autofit can be turned off (or on) in the current presentation or for all new presentations. Recommended article: Do you want to learn more about PowerPoint? Check out our virtual classroom or live classroom Turning off Autofit for a placeholder using a Smart Tag You can control Autofit options for title placeholders, content placeholders and text placeholders on slides using a SmartTag. If Autofit is turned on and you enter more text than will fit in a placeholder on a slide, a Smart Tag will appear and you can turn off Autofit using the Smart Tag menu.. To turn off Autofit using a Smart Tag: • In Normal View, display the slide with the font that is being resized in the placeholder. • Click in the placeholder. • Select the Smart Tag that appears beside the placeholder (which displays as two arrows). A drop-down menu appears. • Select Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder. When you click the Smart Tag, a drop-down menu appears with several options (some other options display depending on context such as splitting text between two s...

The first three options will work with photos/images as well as shapes. To move it, click on it, hold, and then drag it to the desired location. To resize it, click and drag one of the little squares that appear in the corners. Hold down the Shift key before you start dragging the corner to keep the image proportionate.Note that depending on the file type, your image may become distorted if you make it bigger. To rotate the image/shape, click and drag on the circle at the top. To modify the proportions of a shape, click, hold, and drag one of the yellow squaresthat appear on the shape. To change the color (inside or out), use the appropriate Fill (inside) or Outline (line around the image) options in the Shape (or Picture) Format Ribbon or at the right of the Home Ribbon. If you want just the outline of a shape, choose No fill from the dropdown menu. To add text to a shape, right-click and choose Edit Text…. A cursor appears in the shape - start typing. The text will automatically fit inside the shape. To edit or modify the text (color, size, font, etc.), highlight the text and make the change. To connect lines between objects, choose a line from the Shapes icon, move your cursor over the object until you see green circles on the edge of the shape. Click and hold on the green circles, drag a line to the other object until you see a green circle again, and then let go of the mouse button. To change the order of the objects, click on the Bring Forward or Send Backward icon i...

I'd like to use a non-rectangular shape from the shape browser as a placeholder for text in a slide master. Normal placeholders come up with the "Click here to edit master text styles" prompt but I can't seem to make that happen with a shape. I've seen tutorials where it can be done with older versions of (maybe Windows only) PowerPoint. See: http://www.techtutor.tv/powerpoint-2007/turn-a-text-box-into-a-shape-in-powerpoint-2007.html. Yeah, it's there but it's so well hidden you need to have the exploratory skills of Ponce de Leone combined with the luck of a mega lottery winner :-) Once you select the Shape or Placeholder go to the SmartArt [yea, I said SmartArt] Tab. There's a Shape button in the Edit SmartArt group *... That would be it :-) * Mind you, other than this, there's not another feature or control for a Drawing Object available from the SmartArt Tab in any Office 2011 app. As a bonus, though -- Even when editing a Master you can right-click the boundary of a placeholder & use the Edit Points command. *********** AI: Artificial Intelligence or Automated Idiocy??? "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Alexander Pope Regards, Bob J.

Amelia Griggs Writer Amelia Griggs is a Learning Design and Development specialist, Instructional Designer, Writer, and "Authorpeneuer." She enjoys researching, designing, and developing all kinds of educational materials, problem-solving, helping and training others to understand technology better, writing instructional articles, blogging, and composing fictional short stories. In PowerPoint, when you type, you may notice that if you enter more text than can fit inside a text placeholder, the text is automatically resized to a smaller size. This is called AutoFit. In some cases, that might be helpful; in other cases, it might not. Here’s how to turn that off. The best case for turning off AutoFit is when you know how big you want a box (or any shape) to be on your slide and you know the size you want the text to be. In that case, it makes more sense to let the text overflow the box so that you can edit the text down to a point where it fits. AutoFit Options First, let’s take a look at what happens when you type inside a text placeholder. If you type more than will fit in the placeholder, the AutoFit Options button displays. Click on the “AutoFit Options” button to view the available options. In this example, the “AutoFit Text to Placeholder” option is selected. AutoCorrect Options Want to turn off AutoFit globally for all new text placeholders that you add? You can turn AutoFit off via the AutoCorrect options, and there are two ways to get to there. Option #1: One way is ...

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You can customize how text fits in text placeholders and text boxes. By default: • Text automatically shrinks to fit a text placeholder. • A newly created text box automatically resizes to fit text. You can change autofit settings in: • Slides preferences • The Format options sidebar • The menu next to each text box Change autofit preferences for new text placeholders & text boxes Important: Autofit for new text placeholders and text boxes changed in January 2021. Text placeholders and text boxes created before that were not affected. Changes to preferences will affect only new content created after the change. • Open a presentation in Slides. • You have a few ways to open format options for text fitting: • Go to Format Format options. In the sidebar, click Text fitting. • Right-click a text placeholder or box. In the menu, click Text fitting. • Create a new text box Click the icon next to the box . • Select a new setting for text in the box: • Do not autofit. • Shrink text on overflow. This is the default for theme text placeholders. • Resize shape to fit text. This is the default for text boxes. Related articles • Add, delete & organize slides • Change the size of your slides • Add a numbered list, bulleted list, or checklist • See and use suggested layouts in a presentation • Change how text fits in placeholders & text boxes • Change the color of text, objects, and backgrounds • Add or change animations and transitions • Check your spelling in Google Slides

We’re probably all aware of tips to making a great PowerPoint presentation, such as keeping the text to a minimum, using images instead of text etc. However sometimes we need to include bullet points to summarise our content. What do you do when you have a slide with a number of bullet points and it looks quite cramped? Do you usually duplicate the slide first, delete the second half of the bullet points on the original slide then delete the first half of the bullet points on the duplicated slide? If you’ve answered yes then this short tutorial will show you a quicker way 🙂 Take the slide in the image below as an example. There are 9 bullet points listed but as we continue listing them the font is automatically decreasing in size in order to fit all of the text in… If you click into the text box, you’ll notice a small icon appear in the bottom left corner of the box. Hover over the icon and you’ll see it’s the Autofit Options… Click on the drop down arrow to list the options… There are 3 options available for you to autofit the content, all of which are pretty self-explanatory… Split text between two slides: Click this option and PowerPoint will automatically move the second half of the bullet points to a new slide… Continue on a new slide: Click this option and it will create a new slide for you to continue adding to the bulleted list… Change to two columns: Click this and it moves the list to display in 2 columns on the same slide… Of course you don’t have to have the te...