From the course: PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic
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Formatting a text box
From the course: PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic
Formatting a text box
- [Instructor] Have you ever been working inside a PowerPoint text box or placeholder and started to type some text, but then noticed that the text inside that text box began to shrink in size, only you didn't want it to do that? Well, if you've had that happen, you've witnessed a feature inside PowerPoint designed to help you with formatting. Now, technically text boxes aren't set to AutoFit. But depending on how that template was set up, your text boxes might have set their default text boxes to AutoFit, and you might encounter that behavior on occasion, which can be frustrating if you don't know what's happening. Now, to change or override AutoFit, let me undo that real quick, what you can do is simply take your mouse, hover it right over that edge of that text box, and right-click. That'll open up that shortcut menu. And at the very bottom, you'll see the option to Format Shape. Clicking on Format Shape will open up a task pane to the far-right of PowerPoint. And over off to the…
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