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Text Formatting: Text Layout Options in PowerPoint

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.

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

Text Layout Options in PowerPoint 2013

Text Layout Options in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Text Layout Options in PowerPoint 2011

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