Your First Text Box
Let's start with a blank slide and add some text. Here's how:
- Set the Layout to "Blank" by clicking the Layout pull-down menu. This will clear the text placeholders off of your slide and give you a clean slate to start with (we'll explore how layouts work later).
- To place a text box onto your slide: first click the Text button, then click and drag to draw your text box onto the slide.
- Just start typing once your text box appears, no need to select the text with the mouse first.
- A yellow selection box means that you are in text editing mode, where you can insert and delete text as well as change formatting (color, font, etc.) for individual words or sentences.
- Click off of the text box to deselect it (click anywhere on the blue slide background outside of the text box) and you will see the yellow selection box disappear. Click once on the text box to select it again and you will see a blue selection box appear, which means that any formatting you apply will affect all text in the box.
- Set the text color to white by clicking the color chip and choosing from the color palette that appears.
- Make the text bold by pressing the Bold button.
- You can grow your text by pressing the Larger/Smaller buttons (or you can enter an exact numerical size).
