Click to add text in text box without having to backspace

[Guest]

I am creating a standard PowerPoint slide for my company to use. When the
users type in a text box, I would like them to be able to click in the text
box and add their text (just like it says they should do), instead of having
them have to delete the text that reads 'Click to add text' before they type
their own text. I have seen this in other slides before, but I can't figure
out how to do it in my slide.

 

[Guest]

One way is to go into Slide Master(View > Master > Slide Master) and drag the
placeholder off the slide so they can't be seen on the slide. But why would
you want to do so? By adding your own textbox in every slide instead of using
the placeholder, it's not only troublesome, it will also give you a big
headache when you need to do formatting or modifying such as size, font,
color and etc. Wouldn't recommend you doing that.
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[Guest]

Thanks for the effort, but that really doesn't have anything to do with what
I was asking for. I do have the placeholder in the slidemaster. When the user
goes to that slide, the placeholder (text box) reads 'Click to add text'. I
would like them to just click in that box, the current placeholder text to
disappear, and be able to start typing their own text. Instead of having to
delete the text that currenly reads 'Click to add text', and then type their
own text. Make sense?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the effort, but that really doesn't have anything to do with what
I was asking for. I do have the placeholder in the slidemaster. When the user
goes to that slide, the placeholder (text box) reads 'Click to add text'. I
would like them to just click in that box, the current placeholder text to
disappear, and be able to start typing their own text. Instead of having to
delete the text that currenly reads 'Click to add text', and then type their
own text. Make sense?

Yes and no. The fact is, what you'd like to have happen is exactly what DOES
happen with placeholders on master slides.

The fact that it's not happening suggests to me that you may not really have a
placeholder. If you added the text box yourself, it's not a placeholder.

Try this:

choose View, Master, SlideMaster
In the slide master, choose Format, Master Layout.

If you don't have a Text placeholder on the slide, you can put a check next to
"Text" and click OK to add one. If you already have a Text placeholder, then
"Text" will be grayed out.

To be completely certain, you can delete your current text box then use the Format,
Master Layout dialog to add a text placeholder back. Working on a COPY of your
presentation, of course. ;-)

 

[Guest]

Ok, I'm a little embarrassed Steve, thank you, you were right, I did have my
own text box created on top of the placeholder.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ok, I'm a little embarrassed Steve, thank you, you were right, I did have my
own text box created on top of the placeholder.

Probably took less time to fix that it did to read my gaseous explanation, too, once
pointed in the right direction. ;-)

Glad it's working!