From the course: PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic
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Placeholders vs. text boxes
From the course: PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic
Placeholders vs. text boxes
- [Instructor] In PowerPoint, there is a big difference between text boxes and placeholders, and it is an important difference if you plan on copying and reusing slides or slide elements from one presentation in PowerPoint to another, or resetting a slide back to its original template settings. Let me show you what I mean. Here on this slide, I have two text elements that appear to look the same at a glance. The font and the font size are identical, but the difference is that one is a text box and one is a slide title. And if I go to the Layout dropdown, you can see that the layout for this slide is Title Only. So if I were to go to my View tab and click on Slide Master, you can see how this slide was designed. This is how my slide is supposed to look like by default, so if we go back to this original slide, someone has moved my slide title placeholder. They've changed the position or where this placeholder appears on the slide. And they've added an additional text box below it. If I…
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