While standard text boxes serve their purposes, modifying the plain text in your PowerPoint presentations can add some compelling visual flair. While you can't insert a curved text box in ...

Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular platform made for presentations. Learn how to set shape colors and text box font as default in PowerPoint.

Text boxes are often used in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Excel, especially if users want to enter text on a picture or any image that is not editable in Microsoft Office.

For text to overlap in PowerPoint 2007 it has to be entered into separate text boxes. If you think of each text box as a sticky-note, you can envision how PowerPoint works with objects.

To add alt text to images in PowerPoint, or edit an image's existing alt text, select the photo and choose "Edit Alt Text…" from the Picture Format toolbar. When you add an image to PowerPoint ...