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Hi,
I am trying to set up a master for my PowerPoint presentations.
I have set AutoFormat also "Shrink text on Overflow". Now I am using a placeholder so that my master works properly. Textboxes is no good. However, no matter which font size I am selecting if the text is larger than the placeholder the font size won´t shrink. I read in one post "that´s the way it is as it is not expected for titles to shrink text".
I truly hope this is not the case. What logic should that have? So shall I tell the user "Please only use font size 24 and if your title is too long you will have to shorten your title". Generelly speaking this would be correct from presentation side of things, but I am not in a position to lecture members of the board or my clients, how to do their presentations. So am I expected to tell them..."yes, you can see the Smarttag but it won´t work if you choose to shrink text to fit". How can I set up properly a master if this option won´t work for placeholder.
So I do hope that I am just missing something as otherwise I am not surprised why everybody is avoiding placeholders, resulting in badly created masters, that won´t work.
Please advise if there is a way to get placeholder to shrink text on overflow.
Kind regards,
Nicole
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To make John Wilson's suggestion work, insert a new text-only placeholder in Slide Master view, remove the extra levels of text below level 1 and increase the type size to make it look like a title.
Answer accepted by question author
Title type placeholders will usually shrink text just once (often to allow a two line title.
If you need more than this you might try creating a custom layout with a SubTitle placeholder that looks like a title. (not tried but should work)
Thanks for all the suggestions...well, will have to use whatever PowerPoint offers.