• Overview
• Learning Materials
  • Creating a PowerPoint File
    • Open A New Document
    • Choose and Apply a Design
    • Add New Slides
    • Select and Apply Slide Templates
    • Add Text To Slides
    • Use Text Effectively
    • Insert Objects Onto a Slide
    • Insert a Picture Onto a Slide
    • Add A Chart To A Slide
    • Add A Table To A Slide
    • Use Content Effectively
    • Draw On Slides
    • Add Notes To A Slide
    • Add Slide Transitions
    • Add Animation to Text and Objects
    • Use Movement Effectively
    • Add Hyperlinks to a Slide
    • Add Action Buttons
    • Use Links Effectively
    • Add Narration to a Presentation
  • Delivering a Presentation
  • Distributing a Presentation
• What's Next
• Index

Add Text To Slides

There are two ways to add titles or bulleted text to a PowerPoint slide.

The first is to simply click on the slide in Normal view and type.

The second is to type text in the Outline tab of Normal view. If you are entering text in this way, pressing the Enter key will insert a new slide. To change this new slide to a bullet on the previous slide, press the increase indent icon in the formatting toolbar.

You can use the standard Microsoft text formatting tools to format text on a slide.

Caution: Remember that if you apply formatting to text, this formatting may make it difficult to apply a new design template to the presentation.

Try it! Practice adding text to a slide in Normal view and also using the Outline tab.