• While regular text boxes serve the purpose of conveying information, bent or circular text grabs the eye and focuses attention on the text being used. Over the years, the ability to create circular text in PowerPoint has changed, and there are now a couple of ways to add curved text to your presentation.
• To edit the text, you just need to double click on the text box. You can change the text alignment, or move the image to a new position or resize the image. The text will wrap around the image automatically. When you click outside the slide, the change will reflect on the slide.

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While you can't insert a curved text box in PowerPoint, you can use the Text Effects feature to change the way in which text appears inside of a standard text box. Once you've curved your text.

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Curved text in PowerPoint can be a powerful way to highlight the messaging in your presentation. While regular text boxes serve the purpose of conveying information, bent or circular text grabs the eye and focuses attention on the text being used. Over the years, the ability to create circular text in PowerPoint has changed, and there are now a couple of ways to add curved text to your presentation. This article takes you through both methods and then shows you why the PDF format is more suited for documentation, collaboration, and distribution of digital printed information. First, let's look at how to write curved text in PowerPoint.

2 Methods to Add Curved Text in PowerPoint

There are actually several different ways to create curved text in PowerPoint. You can either add the text first and then add the style element, or you can directly add WordArt text and then change various parameters.

Method 1: Using Text Effects

• First, add a text box to your slide by clicking on the 'Text' option and dragging your mouse to create it. Don't worry about the size, since you can tweak everything later.
• Once you have typed in your text, select it and click on 'Format' in the ribbon toolbar.
• Look for 'Text Styles' and, under that, hit 'Text Effects' and select 'Transform' in the drop-down. You can now specify the path you want your text to follow.
• Once you've added the curved text, you can resize it, move it to another position, change text attributes, add a border and/or fill, and so on.

You can do a lot of customization this way, but a better approach would be to use WordArt. That's because you have a long list of preset options that you can further tailor to suit your branding needs.

Method 2: Customize WordArt Text

• For this, go to the slide where you want to put the curved text and click on Insert at the top, followed by 'WordArt' in the 'Tools' section.
• Pick your theme from the popup options and click on it.
• Select the placeholder text in case you want to further customize the text.
• Next, select the text box and click 'Drawing Tools Format', then go to 'Text Effects' > 'Transform'. Choose a bend effect from the 'Follow Path' section.
• You can now use the 'Transform' tool to modify your text to curved or even circular text.

That's how to make text curve in PowerPoint. Once you're done with creating your presentation, you may want to have it distributed digitally within a closed group at your office or within your department. For that, a better medium is PDF, or Portable Document Format. The next section talks about one of the top-rated document management software applications in the world.

How to Edit Text in PDF

PDFelement is as versatile as you'll get with a PDF editor. It offers the full range of tools required for creating, editing, annotating and commenting on, converting to, extracting from, e-signing, applying robust security options, and performing advanced optical character recognition (OCR) on PDF documents. Here are a few of the processes explained:

1. Adding Text::

Adding text to a PDF document converted from PPT is a breeze with this application.

• a. The first step is to get the presentation imported as a PDF file. For this, launch the program and click on 'Create PDF', then select your PowerPoint presentation to convert and import the document. You can also simply drag your document to the software interface and drop it for conversion and upload.
• b. Next, click the 'Edit' menu and then the 'Add Text' option. In the text box that appears, enter or paste your new text.

2. Edit Text:

If you'd like to further edit the text that you input in the previous step, select it and choose between line mode and paragraph mode of editing. The best part is that it will show you intuitive and contextual menus that are only relevant to the element you are editing in the document. You can control properties like text size and formatting, rotation, justification, etc.

3. Annotate Text:

How To Write Curved Text In Powerpoint Slides

To Annotate a PDF document, click on the 'Comment' tab at the top. It will show you a tool ribbon with various text options, stamps, shapes, and so on. Click on the option you want and click on the PDF page where you want to insert the element. You can later edit the element by right-clicking and going to its Properties menu, which will appear as a right sidebar.

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Learn to create curved text in PowerPoint. Discover ways you can use the idea to add value to your business presentations.

Application of curved PowerPoint text

Curved text in PowerPoint helps you visualize the concept of aligning around a core idea. Some applications of the concept are:

• Principles of an organization aligned around their corporate vision
• Various functions in a company aligned around customer needs

Here is a diagram template that shows the application of curved text:

In this article, we will learn how to write curved text in PowerPoint.

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Step 1: Write the text and add effect

How To Bend Text In Powerpoint 2013

First write the text you want to align around a circular path. Go to Format -> Text effects -> Transform ->Follow path -> Circle.

Once done, you would see the text curved as follows:

If you want the text to follow a circular path – select the text, go to Format ->Size and make the height and width of the text box equal as shown here.

This makes the text curve as follows:

You can see another surprising cross stitch background effect for text here >>

Step 2: Determine the extent of distribution

When you click on the PowerPoint text, you will see a pink diamond handle. The handle allows you to adjust the extent of distribution of text around the path:

If you want to distribute the text equally around the circle, pull the handle to draw a full circle. If the text is still not distributed equally, you may want to use space bar or ‘Tab’ to push the text. The result will be as like shown here.

You can reduce the size of the circle, increase the font size or increase the amount of text to get a tighter circle.

Related: Curved Arrow Tutorial in PowerPoint

Step 3: Create your variations

Space multiple text elements evenly:

Have a circle that connects text elements:

Include a design element in the center:

What you do with the lesson you learned today is limited only by your imagination.

Related: 5 Slide Organization Ideas

More Options for Business Presenters:

If you want more ideas to visualize your concepts, we recommend you take a look at our ‘750+ PowerPoint Charts and Diagram Templates pack for CEOs’. The pack has more than 750 insightful diagram templates you can use for your business presentations. Just replace the sample text with your own text and your professional slide deck gets ready in minutes.

Here are a few samples from the pack:

Why waste time creating diagrams from the scratch, when you have such a high quality solution available off the shelf?

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