From the course: Learning PowerPoint Desktop (Microsoft 365)
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Add text with text slides, boxes, and shapes - PowerPoint Tutorial
From the course: Learning PowerPoint Desktop (Microsoft 365)
Add text with text slides, boxes, and shapes
- [Instructor] We've already seen that one way to add text to your slides is to simply click inside the text placeholders that are already on the slide. That's how I added text inside these two placeholders on this slide. But there will be times when you want to insert text into a slide at a location where there are no placeholders. So let's take a look at some other ways to add text. I'm going to create a new blank slide for this. And again, new slides will all always appear below the slide you currently have selected. And this is a completely empty slide with no placeholders or any other objects. I'll go up to the Insert tab of the ribbon, and here we have a Text Box button. Clicking that turns your mouse cursor into the text box tool. And we can use this in one of two ways. We can simply click anywhere on the slide, which creates a text box that will expand to fit the text as you type. (keyboard clacking) You…
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