Text Formatting: Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, May 15, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 4:11 pm

Updated: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 11:08 am

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Text Boxes in PowerPoint need to be moved and resized within different areas of the slide. While you may think that selecting and resizing is all that is to be done, that’s not the entire truth because there’s so much more you can do even with mere resizing–if you know that these options exist!

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2016

Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2013

Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac:

Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2016

Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2011

Resize Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 05 06 05
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