Turn off text AutoFit (this is on by default). When resizing is turned off, Microsoft PowerPoint will not reduce your font size and line spacing to fit spillover text into a placeholder (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.) (including the placeholder for notes on notes pages (notes pages: Printed pages that display author notes beneath the slide that the notes accompany.)).

1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options.
2. Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
3. Under Apply as you type, do any of the following:
   • To turn off AutoFit for title text, clear the AutoFit title text to placeholder check box.
   • To turn off AutoFit for body text, clear the AutoFit body text to placeholder check box.

Look for the AutoFit Options button , which appears to the left of the resized text. Point to the button, click it, and then select Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder. The text will return to its original size and spacing.

When title text resizing is on, title text is reduced by one font size level to bring spillover text onto one line. If the title text is too long, one reduction in font size might not bring all the text to one line, and text will spill over to the next line. In this case, you would have to shorten the title.

Text AutoFit applies to placeholder (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.) text only— title text and body text such as bulleted lists. It doesn't apply to text boxes (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.), AutoShapes (AutoShapes: A group of ready-made shapes that includes basic shapes, such as rectangles and circles, plus a variety of lines and connectors, block arrows, flowchart symbols, stars and banners, and callouts.), or WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.).

1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options.
2. Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
3. Under Apply As You Type, be sure the AutoFit title text to placeholder check box is selected.
4. Clear the AutoFit body text to placeholder check box.

• Some types of text don't appear and aren't editable on the Outline tab. They include text added with the Text Box tool , text attached to an AutoShape (AutoShapes: A group of ready-made shapes that includes basic shapes, such as rectangles and circles, plus a variety of lines and connectors, block arrows, flowchart symbols, stars and banners, and callouts.), WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.) text, and text in embedded objects (embedded object: Information (object) contained in a source file and inserted into a destination file. Once embedded, the object becomes part of the destination file. Changes you make to the embedded object are reflected in the destination file.).
• If Expand All on the Standard toolbar is toggled so that only slide titles appear on the Outline tab, you won't see all of your text. Click Expand All to display all the text.