Selecting text boxes in PP

[Guest]

Hi TAJ,

I am trying to select the text boxes one at a time and then animate them in
sequence. Kathryn Jacobs suugested it might be that all of the words in the
text box have been ungrouped as separate entities. I thought of this also
when I was lying in bed last night! But cannot seem to re-group the text box
on it's own. The right click/ungroup command ungroups the whole slide.
Please don't waste any more of your time wih this proble. I think it might
be easier to start with a blank slide in PP (not in Word) and add the text
boxes there.

David B

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

David,
Personally, I would start any graphic based project in PPT because that is
one of the things it can handle better than Word. But, since you already
have the object in Word, try one more thing: Instead of pasting as a WMF,
just do the paste - that should bring your diagram over just as it is.

Be sure to stick around - there is a lot of great advice here for any PPT
user

Oh - and if you haven't already, go read these two entries from Steve
Rindsberg's PPT FAQ:
Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

Don't do this with PowerPoint. Seriously.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00511.htm


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[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, come on, F2 toggles from all text selection to bounding box and
back again, escape if you press it twice leaves you nowhere.
Fastest way I know of to select all text with one key.

;-)

See my other reply. F2. I like it.

Ah the games up, you look at the keys when typing, no.
Do you not have a gap between Esc and F1

Yes. No. Which of the many keyboards are we talking about here? ;-)
Some do, some don't. But all of them have ESC in the upper left corner where my
fingers can find it fast.

But I'm going to have to teach them to keep looking a bit further to the right.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

I think it might

be easier to start with a blank slide in PP (not in Word) and add the text
boxes there.

Probably

TAJ