Type text on screen during your presentation - PPT 2013

A user asked me if it was possible to add text on screen during the presentation. Yes, it is possible, to do so you need add an active-x control on your slide.

Click on the Developer tab (if it is not visible go to File - Options - Customize ribbon - click the checkbox next to Developer).

In the controls group click the text button.

Drag a suitable rectangle on your slide where you can type your text. It will look like this:

In the controls group click the Properties button.

Change the properties, in this example I have given a border to the box (BorderStyle), added the possibility to add several lines (Multi lines), activated the Enter key (Enter key behavior), changed the text size/font (Font, click on the three dots at the end of the field), activated WordWrap, named the textbox (Name) and activated the vertical scrollbar (Scrollbars).

If you do not want the box to be visible during the slide show, click next to SpecialEffects and choose fmSpecialEffectflat. This way the box will be invisible, the disadvantage of course is you have to know it is there and its exact location.

If you typed text in the box during the presentation and leave or close the presentation you will be asked to save it, so text will not be lost.