If you want to place text next to the inner border of a circle you will have to take several steps. In PPT there is no function allowing you to place text following the outer or inner border of a circle.
By using
tabs and the
Merge Shapes feature you can achieve what you want.
Let us suppose you want to create the following example. You can use a circle with a picture background and only
one textbox. On top of that the combined objects must be resizable. So no fiddling around with several textboxes.
Step 1
Press
Alt+F9 to activate the guides which run through the middle of the slide.
Click
Insert -
Shape - select the
oval and drag, starting in the intersection of the two guides, using
Ctrl+Shift to draw a perfect circle. You can add the background picture now or wait till the end.
Step 2
Draw a textbox that matches the width of the circle. Type in all the text using the enter key after each paragraph. If necessary adjust the the font size, and change the spacing after the paragraph so that the text is equally spread.
Select the circle and the text box and center align them.
Step 3
Now click the dialogstarter button in the Paragraph group, in the dialog click the Tabs button. At the top next to Default tab stops put a low value eg. 0.19 inch, click OK.
The ruler looks something like this
Step 4
Click in front of every paragraph and press the tab key once or several times so that the text aligns perfectly with the circle border.
Step 5
As a last step select the circle and then the text box. Click the
Format tab, in the
Insert shapes group click the
Merge Shapes button and choose
Combine. Finally click the
Shape outline button in the
Shape styles group and click
No outline.
Once this last step is done you can move, resize, change the background of the combined shape.