• Select the object (such as a text box (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.), 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.), or piece of clip art (clip art: A single piece of ready-made art, often appearing as a bitmap or a combination of drawn shapes.)) by clicking its border, and when the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, drag the object.
• The object might have been created on the slide master (slide master: The slide that stores information about the design template applied, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes.). To move an object on the slide master, point to Master on the View menu, and then click Slide Master. On the slide master, click the object to select it, and then drag it.

• Be sure the pointer is over the selected text when you try to drag it. You'll see a small, empty gray box when you click the pointer to drag the text.
• Drag-and-drop editing might not be on. On the Tools menu, click Options, click the Edit tab, and then select the Drag-and-drop text editing check box.

• When you drag to select the line of text, if your pointer drops slightly below the current line, the line below will also be selected. Move the pointer back up, while still dragging, to undo the unwanted selection.
• Some formatting changes— such as line spacing, alignment, bullets, and tabs— affect the entire paragraph and can't be applied to a single line.
• Be sure to select only the text you want to change. If you select an entire paragraph, the changes you make affect all text in the paragraph

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.).

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.

When the "select whole words" setting is on, Microsoft PowerPoint automatically selects a whole word, and the space after it, as you drag to select. To turn off this setting, on the Tools menu, click Options, click the Edit tab, and then clear the When selecting, automatically select entire word check box. Then, drag to select the characters.

• 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 you click Expand All , on the Formatting toolbar, only slide titles appear on the Outline tab. To see all of the text, click Expand All again.

• To see formatted text on the Outline tab or in the notes pane (notes pane: The pane in normal view in which you type notes that you want to accompany a slide. You print these notes as notes pages or have them display when you save a presentation as a Web page.), click Show Formatting on the Standard toolbar.

• To see colors that you apply, on the View menu, click Notes Page.

• To see how the text will print, on the Standard toolbar, click Print Preview , and in the Print What list, click Notes Pages.

To turn off the AutoCorrect Options button, on the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options. On the AutoCorrect tab, clear the Show AutoCorrect Options buttons check box.