Text boxes let you place text anywhere in a document and can be moved, resized, and formatted just like a picture. Add a text box. Select Insert > Text Box. Click and drag to draw the text box …

You can add text to a PowerPoint slide or a slide master by inserting a text box and typing inside that box. You can then format that text by selecting the text or the entire box. You can also add …

Add text. Select inside the text placeholder, start typing. For text bullets, place your cursor in the line of text, and on the Home tab, select a bullet style in the Paragraph group.

Right-click the text box, placeholder, or shape border, and click Format Shape. On the right side of the window, click Text Options > Textbox . Click Columns, enter the number of columns in …

Insert a text box or shape in your document, and then type and format your text. Right-click the box or shape and select Format Shape . In the Format Shape pane, under Shape Options , …

In a text box or shape, you can quickly change the color of text, the inside (fill) color, or the color of the border. Let's select the shape—the Drawing Tools appear in the ribbon, with the Format …

Right-click the text box, and then click Format Text Box. On the Text Box tab, under Text Box Margins , enter the settings for the margins. Flow text into another text box.

Add text. Select inside the placeholder, and then type or paste the text. If your text exceeds the size of the placeholder, PowerPoint reduces the font size and line spacing incrementally as …

You can change the look of a shape or text box by changing its fill or by adding effects to it, such as shadows, glows, reflections, soft edges, bevels, and three-dimensional (3-D) rotations. A fill …

To make the text on your slides easier to read, you might want to change the spacing between lines of text and between paragraphs in your PowerPoint presentation. You can also adjust the …