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Using Content Placeholders
Slides are based on layouts. The default layout for the first slide in the presentation is Title; the default layout for all subsequent slides is Title and Text.
You'll learn more about layouts in Chapter 3; I'm bringing them up now only because the layout controls the type and positioning of the content placeholders on the slides. Whenever you see a dotted-line box with something in it like "Click to add..." something, that's a text placeholder. There are other kinds of content placeholders too, such as placeholders for graphics, charts, tables, and so on.
Text Placeholders
To use a text placeholder, just click in it and type the text. Anything you type in them will appear on the Outline tab, and vice versa. (That is, anything you type on the Outline tab will show up on a slide in a text placeholder.) When you delete all the text from a text placeholder, the default message "Click here..." returns. (The placeholder text does not appear in Slide Show view.)
Text placeholders have an AutoFit feature that's enabled by default. If you type more text in a placeholder box than will fit, PowerPoint will automatically decrease the size of the text and change the line spacing so that it will all fit. If you then delete some of the text later, it will reenlarge the text.
For a text placeholder that has been AutoFitted, an AutoFit icon appears in the bottom left corner. You can click that icon to change the AutoFit behavior (see Figure 1-13).
Figure 1-13: Click the AutoFit icon to control the AutoFit setting of a text placeholder.
A text placeholder box is not the only kind of text box you can have on a slide. You can also manually add a text box using the Text Box tool on the Drawing toolbar. The text in such a text box does not appear on the outline.
| XREF | Chapter 5 discusses the pros and cons of using text placeholders versus manual text boxes. |
Graphic Object Placeholders
Some slide layouts have placeholders for graphic objects. Of these, some have a placeholder for one specific type of graphic, such as clip art, while others have a grid of six icons and enable you to insert any of the six different object types. Figure 1-14 shows one of these multi-purpose placeholders.
Figure 1-14: Some layouts have a multi-purpose graphic object placeholder like this one.
To use the graphic placeholder shown in Part III of the book. When you do manually insert a graphic on a slide, PowerPoint's AutoLayout feature tries to be helpful by changing the slide's layout to one that includes a placeholder for that type of graphic, and placing the manually inserted graphic into that placeholder. If that's what you want, great. If not, you can reverse the action by clicking the AutoLayout icon (which shows up automatically in the bottom-right corner of the inserted object) and choosing Undo Automatic Layout, as shown in Figure 1-15.
