There are three types of text containers that PowerPoint provides: text placeholders, text boxes, and shapes. All three text containers are sufficiently similar in their characteristics for layout options for the text contained inside them.
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Microsoft Windows
Text Layout Options in PowerPoint 2013
Text Layout Options in PowerPoint 2010
Apple Mac
Text Layout Options in PowerPoint 2011
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