PowerPoint6 PowerPoint: Designing the Look of Your Presentation Part (6)The Format dialog box generally includes several other tabs as well, including a Colors And Lines tab that lets you specify the fill color that should be used for the objector placeholder; a Size tab that lets you size the object by providing its height and width.

A Position tab that lets you specify the location of an object by using text boxes and drop down list boxes; a Picture tab that lets you crop a picture image and make modest changes to the image’s color, brightness, and contrast; and a Text Box tab that lets you specify how text should be anchored inside a text placeholder box and what internal margins PowerPoint should use for positioning text inside the placeholder.

The Text box tab also provides check boxes you can use to specify how text should wrap inside the placeholder, how to resize the placeholder if the text is too large to fit, and even to rotate text inside a placeholder.

 

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