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Prezi Cookbook

You're reading from   Prezi Cookbook Over 100 simple but incredible recipes to create dynamic, engaging, and beautiful presentations using Prezi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783551835
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Administer Your Account and Your Prezi FREE CHAPTER 2. Inserting Text, Images, and Links 3. Symbols and Shapes, Lines and Arrows 4. Editing Elements on the Canvas 5. Path and Steps 6. Frames and Prezi Ratio 7. Zoom and Turn 8. Animation 9. Reuse Favorite Frames and Elements 10. Media Files in Prezi 11. Templates, Colors, and Fonts 12. Presenting with Prezi 13. Prezi on Other Devices 14. PowerPoint and Prezi 15. Sharing and Collaborating A. Design B. Transitions C. Keyboard Shortcuts Index

Working with text in Prezi

Working with text in Prezi is very easy. All work with text is done in textboxes.

How to do it…

  1. Click (once) anywhere on the canvas to create an open textbox.
  2. Type in the textbox or paste copied text from another source into the box.
  3. Click outside the textbox to close it.
  4. To edit the text, reopen the textbox by clicking on it twice.

Take a look at the following screenshot:

Tip

If you don't want the new textbox you opened, cancel it by using the Esc key on your keyboard.

Textbox – an editing tool

The textbox shown in the previous screenshot is the toolbar that you will use for all text edits, except adjustments of size and turning.

To edit a previously created text, double-click on the text to access the textbox tools.

An open textbox offers a wide range of editing options. If a specific portion of text is selected, only this portion will be affected by the edits. Changes (edits) are applied to all the content in the textbox if you do not select a specific...

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