Text Formatting: Selecting and Changing Text in PowerPoint

Created: Thursday, July 7, 2022, posted by Geetesh at 12:13 pm

Updated: Friday, June 23, 2023 at 12:06 pm

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Although PowerPoint does include options to use pictures, SmartArt, charts, sounds, and even video clips, we rarely see presentations that have no text at all. Nothing conveys a message better than text, and even pictures do need captions in the form of text. In PowerPoint, several slide objects can include text. These include text placeholders, text boxes, shapes, tables, SmartArt, charts, etc.

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

Selecting and Changing Text in PowerPoint 2013

Selecting and Changing Text in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Selecting and Changing Text in PowerPoint 2011

Selecting and Changing Text in PowerPoint

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