Text Box - Resizing Handles - On All 4 Sides, or Just at the Top & Bottom

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Text Box - Resizing Handles - On All 4 Sides, or Just at the Top & Bottom

I work in Keynote editing PowerPoint presentations for my organization. I am still a beginner with Keynote. I've noticed that the text box style on the slides I work on (converted from .ppt) appears to be random. Some have boxes with 4 resizing white dots, one on each side. Other text boxes only have a resizing white box on the sides. On these latter boxes, the box just resizes automatically as you type, which is no good if you have more text for your font than the slide allows.

How can get text boxes that have exclusively 4 resizing handles? Alternatively, how can convert the two handled resizing boxes to 4 handled ones?

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Posted on Feb 16, 2021 4:31 AM

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Gary Scotland

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Feb 16, 2021 3:40 PM in response to MTUser2007

There are two types of text boxes:

custom text box with two handles

preset boxes with eight handles

To use custom text boxes with manual control of text size, use either of these methods:

in the menu bar go to: Insert > Text Box
click the Text button on the Tool Bar

To use preset text boxes, use the text box supplied with the theme being used by clicking on the slide background and select either Title or Body style in the Format Inspector:

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MTUser2007 Author

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Feb 16, 2021 6:30 PM in response to Gary Scotland

Thank you for explaining that to me. I will work with your information. I'll bet I can use it solve my problem.

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Text Box - Resizing Handles - On All 4 Sides, or Just at the Top & Bottom

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