Editing Text 401
● Slide title Click its slide icon on the Outline tab.
● Bullet point or subpoint Click its bullet on either the Outline tab or the slide.
● All the text in a placeholder Click inside the placeholder, click the Select button
in the Editing group on the Home tab, and then click Select All.
Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+A after clicking inside the placeholder to select all the
text.
● All the objects on a slide Select a placeholder (so that it has a solid border), click
the Select button, and then click Select All. All the other objects on that slide are
added to the selection. You can then work with all the objects as a unit.
Tip Clicking Select and then Selection Pane displays the Selection And Visibility task
pane, where you can specify whether particular objects should be displayed or hidden.
You might want to hide an object if you’re using the slide in similar presentations for
two different audiences, one of which needs more detail than the other.
Selected text appears highlighted in the location where you made the selection—that is,
on either the slide or the Outline tab.
To replace a selection, you type the new text. To delete the selection, you press either
the Delete key or the Backspace key.
If you want to move or copy the selected text, you have three options:
● Drag-and-drop editing Use this feature, which is frequently referred to simply as
dragging, when you need to move or copy text within the same slide or to a slide
that is visible on the Outline tab without scrolling. Start by using any of the meth-
ods described previously to select the text. Then point to the selection, hold down
the mouse button, drag the text to its new location, and release the mouse button.
To copy the selection, hold down the Ctrl key while you drag.
● Cut, Copy, and Paste buttons Use this method when you need to move or copy
text between two locations that you cannot see at the same time—for example,
between slides that are not visible simultaneously on the Outline tab. Select the
text, and click the Cut or Copy button in the Clipboard group on the Home tab.
(The cut or copied item is stored in an area of your computer’s memory called the
Microsoft Office Clipboard, hence the name of the group.) Then reposition the cur-
sor, and click the Paste button to insert the selection in its new location. If you click
the Paste arrow instead of the button, PowerPoint displays a list of different ways to
paste the selection.