PowerPoint 2000

Moving and Sizing Placeholders

As you prepare a presentation, you may find that you want to change the size of the placeholders. They can be moved or resized using sizing handles. When you click on a placeholder or an object, sizing handles appear on the corners and edges around it.

Clicking and dragging the different sizing handles create different effects. If you want to make your object or placeholder bigger or smaller but still keep the proportions of the original, click and drag on a corner sizing handle. When the sizing handle is selected, it turns into double arrows on a diagonal line.

When you want to squeeze or stretch an object or placeholder (making it fatter or skinnier, shorter or taller in appearance), click and drag on the side sizing handles.

Remember, dragging the side sizing handles will change the proportions of the object.