The three types of text containers available in PowerPoint are Text Placeholders, Text Boxes, and Shapes — and although these three types of text containers are different from each other, all three are sufficiently similar as far as the layout options for the text contained inside them are concerned. In this tutorial, we will explore the alignment and text direction options for text within a text container in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Explore the text layout options available in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

