Lesson 9 - Working With Text in PowerPoint

Copy and Paste your Text –

You can copy your text from its older position and paste it to its new position. To copy your text from one place and paste it to another place, you need to follow these simple steps –

1. 1. Select the text (a word or sentence) you wish to copy.
2. 2. Right click on mouse and click on Copy command.
3. 3. Or you can simply give the command shortcut (Ctrl + C).
4. 4. Place your cursor in the location where you want to paste your text.
5. 5. Right click on mouse and click on Paste command.
6. 6. Or you can give a command shortcut (Ctrl + V).

Here, in below sample slide you can see that slide message #ShareYourKnowledge (see above sample slide) is copy and pasted in front of copyright message at right side (see below sample slide).

Copy command is useful when you need a same text or sentence at more than one place in a same slide. It’s better to copy and paste your text instead of writing it everytime.

Drag and Drop your text –

You can drag your text from one place to another as you needed. Follow these simple steps to drag your text or image –

• 1. Simply click on a text, a selection border will appear around the text or image.
• 2. Place your cursor at the border and its convert into a cross arrow move pointer.
• 3. Click on it and drag the text and place it where you want.

See the below sample slide, the position of learn tag is drag from its original position in second slide.

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