In this chapter, we will understand how to add new slides in an existing presentation. Here are the steps that allow you to insert a new slide in the deck −
Step 1 − Right-click in the Navigation Pane under any existing slide and click on the New Slide option.
Step 2 − The new slide is inserted. You can now change the layout of this slide to suit your design requirements.
Step 3 − To change the slide layout, right-click on the newly inserted slide and go to the Layout option where you can choose from the existing layout styles available to you.
You can follow the same steps to insert a new slide in between existing slides or at the end on the slide list.
When we insert a new slide, it inherits the layout of its previous slide with one exception. If you are inserting a new slide after the first slide (Title slide), the subsequent slide will have the Title and Content layout.
You will also notice that if you right-click in the first step without selecting any slide the menu options you get are different, although you can insert a new slide from this menu too.
PowerPoint allows users to add text to the slide in a well-defined manner to ensure the content is well distributed and easy to read. The procedure to add the text in a PowerPoint slide is always the same - just click in the text box and start typing. The text will follow the default formatting set for the text box, although this formatting can be changed later as required. What changes is the different kinds of content boxes that support text in a PowerPoint slide.
Given below are some of the most common content blocks you will see in PowerPoint.
Title Box
This is typically found on slides with the title layout and in all the slides that have a title box in them. This box is indicated by "Click to add title".
Subtitle Box
This is found only in slides with the Title layout. This is indicated by "Click to add subtitle"
Content Box
This is found in most of the slides that have a placeholder for adding content. This is indicated by "Click to add text". As you can see, this box allows you to add text as well as non-text content. To add text to such a box, click anywhere on the box, except on one of the content icons in the center and start typing.
Text Only Box
This is not a default content box available in PowerPoint, but you can create it using Slide Master, if required. This is also indicated by "Click to add text". The only difference between the Text Only Box and the Content Box is that the former only supports text in the content area.
This chapter will teach you how to add new text boxes in a slide. Most of the standard layouts come with the text box option. As mentioned in the previous chapter, text boxes will have "Click to add text" as the default text. Here are the steps to add new text boxes in slide.
Step 1 − Click on the Text Box icon in the Home ribbon under the Drawingsection.
Step 2 − You will get the insert text box cursor that looks like an inverted cross.
Step 3 − Click to insert a text box. You can now start typing directly into the text box.
Step 4 − Alternately, you can click and drag the cursor without releasing the click to create a text box.
The size of the text box can be adjusted by selecting one of the edges marked by squares or corners marked by circles.
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