Adding Text Boxes 395
The Text Box page of the Format Shape dialog box.On the Text Box page, you can also specify whether PowerPoint should shrink the text
to fit the box if it won’t all fit at the default size (18 points), and whether the text should
wrap within the box.
To deselect the text box, you click a blank area of the slide. The border then disappears. If
you want a text box to have a border when it’s not selected, you can display the Format
Shape dialog box, and on the Line Color page, select either Solid Line or Gradient Line.
You can then fine-tune the border’s color or gradient to achieve the effect you want.
In this exercise, you’ll select and deselect a placeholder to see the effect on its border.
You’ll create one text box whose height stays constant while its width increases and an-
other whose width stays constant while its height increases. You’ll manipulate these text
boxes by rotating and moving one of them and sizing the other.