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Demoting your bullets
Mouse
1. Use the INCREASE INDENT button in the PARAGRAPH Group on the Home Ribbon.
Or
Keyboard 1. Press TAB
Promoting your bullets
Mouse
2. Use the DECREASE INDENt button in the PARAGRAPH Group on the Home Ribbon
Or
Keyboard 1. Press SHIFT TAB
Editing Text
Once text has been entered on a slide it can easily be edited.
To edit text on a slide:
Mouse 1. Click on the text item to change – a shaded border will appear around the item and your cursor will lash
somewhere within the text. 2. Click with your mouse or use the cursor keys on the keyboard to move the cursor around within the text,
and the BACKSPACE and DELETE keys to remove characters.
3. When you have inished editing, click outside the text item to exit edit mode.
Adding Free Form Text
here will be times where you wish to insert text outside of one of the pre-deined text placeholders or perhaps on a blank slide. he Free Form Text box allows us the freedom to do this. Once you have added the Free Form text box, you
can add it and resize it as you require.
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To Insert a text box 1. On the Insertribbon, click Text Boxfrom the text group.
2. Click on your slide where you want to insert the text box. 3. Type in the text you wish to appear in the text box.
4. Resize the text box if necessary using the white resizing circles on each side and corner and format your text as appropriate.
• You can use the options on the FORMAT ribbon to enhance a text box for example, to change the ill colour
just as you can with any other drawing object.
Changing the slide layout
Layout refers to the way things are arranged on a slide. A layout contains placeholders, which in turn hold text such as
titles and bulleted lists and slide content such
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as tables, charts, pictures, shapes, and clip art. he default slide that holds bulleted text in 2010 also allows the easy insertion of basic objects you might wish WITHOUT
having to change the slide layout. In the centre of the main bulleted text area are faint icons that if you move over them will allow you, with one click on them, to insert a range of objects. see right
Slide layouts where the main placeholder or title placeholder needs to be in diferent positions can be selected. All available layouts are displayed in the Slide Layout drop down menu.
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To change a slide layout
Mouse 1. Click on the Slide you wish to change the layout for.
2. Click on the LAYOUT button in the SLIDES group on the HOME ribbon.
