The Close box is in the upper-right corner of the Outline and Slides tabs. To redisplay normal view with the tabs restored, do one of the following:
- On the View menu, click Normal (Restore Panes).
- In the lower left of the Microsoft PowerPoint window, click Normal View (Restore panes)
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I inserted text into PowerPoint but I don't get all the text from the original document.
Microsoft PowerPoint bases its formatting of outlines (inserted from other files, such as a .doc file in Microsoft Word) on heading styles in the original document. Even the lowest level of text on the slide has to be based on a heading, rather than the normal style (which is what body text in Word documents is styled as), in your original document. If there's body text in your original document that you want to be a level of text on your slide, make sure it's styled as a heading. PowerPoint formats up to five levels of text.
On a slide, you can decrease a text indent (using Decrease Indent
or SHIFT+TAB) only up to the top level for body text; you cannot decrease it up to the level of title text. To decrease or increase indents for title text and body text, edit the text on the Outline tab instead of on the slide.
Drag-and-drop editing might be turned off. On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Edit tab, select the Drag-and-drop text editing check box. Now, when you select text on the slide and point to it, you'll see the pointer, and when you click, a gray box will appear, letting you know you can drag the text.