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Presentations with PowerPoint 2003
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Adding and Editing
Text
  You can also add, resize, and move text boxes. Under
"Insert" in the main menu, select "Text Box." (There
is also a "Text Box" icon
in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.) Then
click in the slide where you want to add a new text box.
To resize a text box, click on the squares along the border and drag to the
desired size. To move a text box, click on the border and drag to the desired
location.
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You can select colors for borders and/or backgrounds in text boxes.
Under "Format" in the main menu select the "Placeholder" option.
In addition to colored lines and backgrounds, this box offers many
other options for specifying the appearance and position of text and text
boxes, such as setting the margins between text and the box border . |
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 Most text is
likely to be in bullet lists, highlighting the main points of your presentation.
All the preformatted layouts for new slides which feature text boxes assume you
will be putting your text in a bullet list. So, to avoid the boredom one plain,
dull bullet after another, you can go under "Format" on the main
toolbar and select "Bullets and Numbering" for all sorts of options
for your lists.
Along with different shapes and colors for bullets and numbers, there are
many images and characters to choose from to use as bullets. If you are
artistically inclined and care to make the effort, you can even create and
import your own bullet images.
 To
enter text in a bullet list, just start typing. When you hit
"Enter" at the end of a line, another bullet will be created.
To make the next line a sub-bullet entry, hit the "tab" key.
Enter the sub-bullet entry, and hit "Enter" to make the next
sub-bullet. Another "tab" will take you one more sub-level in;
hitting "shift" and "tab" at the same time takes you
back out a level.
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To delete a text box, click on the border of the text box and
hit "Delete." If there is text in the box, the text will be erased and
the box will remain. Hit "Delete" again to delete the box.
Next: Adding
and Editing Web Links
Contents - Start - Select Template
- Slide Layout -
First Slide
Multiple Slides - Text -
Links - Charts - Images
- Slide Colors
Slide Effects - Package for CD
- Web - Handouts -
Run Show
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To
change how the text appears, select "Format" from the main
menu, then Font.
