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2) Move the cursor to the edge of the text box and click the left

mouse button. The gray border disappears, leaving only the green

resizing handles.

3) Press Delete.

Tip

Sometimes it is faster to to delete a text box by dragging a

selection rectangle around the text box and then hitting the

Delete key. Take care to avoid selecting and accidentally deleting

other text boxes or shapes.

Inserting text

Pasting text

Text may be inserted into the text box by copying it from another

document and pasting it into Impress. However, the pasted text will

probably not match the formatting of the surrounding text or that of

the other slides in the presentation. This may be what you want on

some occasions, however in most cases you want to make sure that the

presentation style is consistent. There are several ways to ensure

consistency; these methods are explained below.

Pasting unformatted text

It is normally good practice to paste text without formatting and apply

the formatting later. To paste without formatting, either press

Control+Shift+V and then select Unformatted text from the dialog

box that appears, or click on the small black triangle next to the paste

symbol in the standard toolbar and select Unformatted text. The

unformatted text will be formatted with the outline style at the cursor

position in an AutoLayout text box or with the default graphic style in a

normal text box.

Formatting pasted text

If pasting the text into an AutoLayout area, then to give the pasted

text the same look and feel of the rest of the presentation apply the

appropriate outline style to the text. To do so:

1) Paste the text in the desired position. Do not worry if it does not

look right: it will in a minute.

2) Select the text you have just pasted (see “Selecting text” on page

60 for details on how to do that).

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