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How to add instructional text in the slide master
Hello,
How do I provide instructions in the slide master text placeholders so that the instructions are displayed in the textbox when the layout is selected in a slide?
These are the steps I'm following:
- In the slide master, I add a text placeholder with the text "Pre Header".
- Close the slide master
- In story view, add a new slide and select the layout
The issue is, that the textbox displays "click to add text" instead of the the instructional text "Pre Header".
What is the point of placeholder text being editable if that text is not going to show on the slide outside the slide master?
What can I do for the text placeholders to contain instructional text that disappears when clicking on the textbox during the slide editing process?
Thank you!
Placeholders are more like predefined containers that hold specific content like text, images, or videos on slides. They simplify content insertion by providing predefined areas for content and ensure a uniform layout across all slides using the same master layout.
If you want instructional text to appear on each slide using the same master layout without the need for further editing on the slide, avoid placing text in text placeholders. Instead, insert a text box with the instructional text.Thank you Nedim, but I don't understand how adding a textbox in the slide master would function as instructional text. Doing that makes the text fixed (not possible to edit it) once the layout is applied outside of the slide master.
Am I missing something here?
What I want is for the textboxes in a slide layout to show something like "enter slide Header" and have that text dissappear once the user clicks the box to enter the text.
