I'm looking for the best method to center a quote in the exact middle of a PowerPoint slide. I have a number of these throughout the course, and I want these slides -- with the quote to be exactly centered -- to stand-out from the other PPT slides.
Hi Greg! It sounds like your slides are already created, right? And you need to center a textbox exactly on several slides? You can select the textbox and on the Format tab, choose Align > Center and Align > Middle. If that feels like too much clicking, you could add the "Align Center" and "Align Middle" options to your Quick Access toolbar...that would reduce the number of steps needed, which might be nice if you have tons of slides to tweak. (Here's a screencast where Tom shows how to add stuff to PowerPoint's quick access toolbar.)
Another thought, if you haven't yet created your slides, is to set up a slide master layout with a text placeholder that is perfectly centered. Then, for each slide you need to create, just apply that master layout & type your text in the placeholder.
Thanks for the response. The text isn't already in a text box, which is part of the problem. I want the lines of the text to be centered as well as the entire piece of text to be centered vertically and horizonatally on the slide. Is there something special I need to do for that to occur?
Hi again Greg! The text isn't in a textbox? Is it in a shape? Maybe you could attach a sample slide here so we can get a better understanding of what you're working with?
Greg, it looks like there was a lot of manual formatting in that text that is causing things to go a little wonky if you try to apply additional formatting. Take a look at this screencast and the 2nd slide in the attached tweaked file and see if it helps:
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Hi Greg! It sounds like your slides are already created, right? And you need to center a textbox exactly on several slides? You can select the textbox and on the Format tab, choose Align > Center and Align > Middle. If that feels like too much clicking, you could add the "Align Center" and "Align Middle" options to your Quick Access toolbar...that would reduce the number of steps needed, which might be nice if you have tons of slides to tweak. (Here's a screencast where Tom shows how to add stuff to PowerPoint's quick access toolbar.)
Another thought, if you haven't yet created your slides, is to set up a slide master layout with a text placeholder that is perfectly centered. Then, for each slide you need to create, just apply that master layout & type your text in the placeholder.
Thanks for the response. The text isn't already in a text box, which is part of the problem. I want the lines of the text to be centered as well as the entire piece of text to be centered vertically and horizonatally on the slide. Is there something special I need to do for that to occur?
Hi again Greg! The text isn't in a textbox? Is it in a shape? Maybe you could attach a sample slide here so we can get a better understanding of what you're working with?
Here's the attached file.
Thanks.
Here's the attached file, again. Let me know if this helps.
Greg, it looks like there was a lot of manual formatting in that text that is causing things to go a little wonky if you try to apply additional formatting. Take a look at this screencast and the 2nd slide in the attached tweaked file and see if it helps:
https://jeanette.viewscreencasts.com/ba484078843750f662e694fab900a121
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