Explore various ways of selecting text on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows. The first step to working with text is to master the technique of selection.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
PowerPoint and indeed all Microsoft Office programs allow you to work with a particular object only if it is selected. For example, you select a shape to make changes to the shape. You similarly select a chart to edit the chart. And yes, you can select a text container object such as a text placeholder, a text box, or even a shape -- and then make changes to its position, formatting, size, etc. However, this changes the entire object -- and leaves the actual text content within that object largely unchanged. To make changes to the actual text, you first need to select the text separately and then make changes by using the options available within the Home tab of the Ribbon or the Mini Toolbar.
While this tutorial pertains to selecting text on a single slide, many PowerPoint users want to select all text in their presentations for several reasons. This is not an easy task to achieve, but the first part of our tutorials on Changing Proofing Language for an Entire Presentation explore how you can achieve selection of all text in your slides by using the Outline view or pane.
Let us now explore some guidelines that will help you in selecting text within PowerPoint 2016 for Windows:
Additionally, here are some keyboard shortcuts that will help you select text:
See Also:
Text Basics: Selecting Text in PowerPoint (Index Page)
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