Centering text in PPT

Jan 23, 2013

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.

Thank you!

7 Replies
Jeanette Brooks

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.)

Jeanette Brooks

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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