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- Type Know your customers, press Enter, and then type Know the current trends.
- Press Ctrl+Enter.
Instead of creating another bullet, PowerPoint creates a new slide.If you know what text you want to appear on your slides, it is often quicker
to work on the Outline tab.CLEAN UP Save the BuyingTripsA presentation, and then close it.Adding Text Boxes.
The size and position of the placeholders on a slide are dictated by the slide’s design.
Every slide you create with a particular layout of a particular design has the same place-
holders in the same locations, and the text you type in them has the same format.
If you want to add text that does not belong in a placeholder—for example, if you want
to add an annotation to a graphic—you can create an independent text box and enter
the text there. You can create a text box in two ways:
● You can click the Text Box button, click the slide where you want the text to appear,
and then type. The text box grows to fit what you type on one line, even expanding
beyond the border of the slide if necessary.
● You can click the Text Box button, drag a box where you want the text to appear on
the slide, and then type. When the text reaches the right boundary of the box, the
height of the box expands by one line so that the text can wrap. As you continue
typing, the width of the box stays the same, but the height grows as necessary to
accommodate all the text.