Datasheet
When you click a text object, a box appears around the text, and an insertion
pointer appears at the spot where you clicked. PowerPoint then becomes like
a word processor. Any characters that you type are inserted into the text at
the insertion pointer location. You can press Delete or Backspace to demol-
ish text, and you can use the arrow keys to move the insertion pointer around
in the text object. If you press Enter, a new line of text begins within the text
object.
When a text object contains no text, a placeholder message appears in the
object. For example, a title text object displays the message Click to add
title. Other placeholders display similar messages. The placeholder mes-
sage magically vanishes when you click the object and begin typing text.
If you start typing without clicking anywhere, the text that you type is
entered into the title text object — assuming that the title text object doesn’t
already have text of its own. If the title object is not empty, any text that you
type (with no text object selected) is simply ignored.
After you finish typing text, press Esc or click anywhere outside the text
object.
In Chapter 2, you find many details about playing with text objects, but hold
your horses. You have more important things to attend to first.
Adding a new slide
When you first create a presentation, it has just one slide, which is useful only
for the shortest presentations. Fortunately, PowerPoint gives you about 50
ways to add new slides to your presentation. You see only three of them here:
On the Home tab, click the New Slide button in the Slides group.
Press Ctrl+M.
Right-click in the Slides or Outline tab on the left and then choose New
Slide.
In all three cases, PowerPoint adds a blank slide with a standard layout that
includes a title and content area as shown in Figure 1-4. If you want to choose
a different layout, click the Layout button in the Home tab to display the
gallery of slide layouts. This pane enables you to pick from several different
types of slide layouts. Just click the one that you want to use, and PowerPoint
sets the new slide to the layout of your choosing.
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