Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Step by Step eBook

396 Chapter 14 Work with Slide Text

SET UP You need the BuyingTripsB_start presentation located in your Chapter14

practice file folder to complete this exercise. Open the BuyingTripsB_start presen-

tation, and save it as BuyingTripsB. Then follow the steps.

1. Move to slide 2 , and then on the slide, click the slide title.

The cursor and dashed border indicate that the placeholder is selected for editing.

2. Point to the border of the placeholder, and when the pointer changes to a four-
   headed arrow, click the mouse button once.
   The placeholder is selected as a unit, as indicated by the solid border. Although you
   won’t usually want to change the size or location of a text placeholder, while the
   placeholder has a solid border, you can size and move it just like any other text box.
   Your changes will affect only the placeholder on the current slide, not correspond-
   ing placeholders on other slides.


3. To deselect the placeholder, click outside it in a blank area of the slide.


4. Move to slide 5 , and then click anywhere in the bulleted list to display its
   placeholder.


5. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click the Text Box button, and then point
   below and to the left of the placeholder for the bulleted list.
   The pointer shape changes to an upside-down t.


6. Click the slide to create a text box.

A small, empty text box appears with a cursor blinking inside it.

Clicking the slide creates a single-line text box.