Learn about setting internal margins for text boxes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. You can increase the space in all four directions individually.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
OS: Mac OS X
Internal margins control the amount of blank space between the perimeter (edge) and the actual text within all three types of text containers: text boxes, text placeholders and shapes. Although these margins are similar to the margins of pages in a word-processing document like Microsoft Word, there is a significant difference. Each text container has its own individual margins set, and you can have entirely different margins for one or more text containers, even if they reside on the same slide. In this tutorial, we will explore how to set and change these internal margins for text within a text container in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
It's always recommended that the margin settings should be done on the slide itself only for text boxes (and shapes) rather than individual text placeholders. You can set margins for text placeholders too, but best practices dictate that you make these changes for text placeholders within the Slide Master—thus, providing a consistent look to successive slides in your presentation.
Follow these steps to set a text container's internal margins:
See Also:
Internal Margin Options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Internal Margin Options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
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