Helping you with presenting, PowerPoint, and speaking
How much time do you spend trying to fit text into a placeholder or AutoShape? One option is to reduce the font size or try a different font that takes up less room. But sometimes, you want consistency of font and font size and don’t have room to expand the placeholder or AutoShape. Another option is to split one slide into two or reword the text. If you only need a little extra space, I have found the following solution very helpful:
How do you make these changes as defaults?
Make the changes, then right-click and choose Set as Default Shape.
You can also save the result as a template, File, Save As and choose Template from the File Type drop-down list.