Creating your own text block
As well as using "Click here" text blocks to add text to your presentation, you can add text by creating your own text blocks and filling them in. For basic information about working with text blocks, see About text blocks and text levels.
- In the action bar, click Drawings.
The drawing tools palette appears.
- In the drawing tools palette, click the ABC (text block) icon.
- Do one of the following:
- To create a wrapping text block where the text you enter wraps at the right edge, position the mouse pointer where you want the upper left corner of the text block, and drag the rectangle to the size you want.
- To create a non-wrapping text block where the text you enter does not wrap at the right edge, just click where you want the upper left corner of the text block to appear.
- Begin typing.
- (Optional) To start a new line, press ENTER.
Tip Press TAB to indent the new line or SHIFT+TAB to outdent it.
- When you are finished, click outside the text block.
Notes
- If you resize a non-wrapping text block, it automatically becomes a wrapping text block. Another way to make a text block wrapping or non-wrapping is to select or deselect Word wrap in the text properties Alignment panel.
- If there is already other text on the page, be careful when dragging to create a new text block. If you start the new text block on top of an existing text block, you will be selecting and editing the existing text block instead of creating a new one.
- It may be easier to create the new text block somewhere else on the page and then, after you have typed the text, move the text block where you want it.
See also
Adding text in a "Click here" text block
Editing text
Changing the way text looks
Creating a bulleted list