Powerpoint Scroll Bars & Text Boxes

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Hayden Williams

Can anyone tell me how to apply a scroll bar to a text
box. I am trying to create a presentation that requires
paragraphs, not bullets, and I want the user to be able to
scroll down to read the text. Currently powerpoint wants
to resize the font to make it fit.
Thanks,
Hayden Williams
 
You will be better off using a textbox control, rather then a regular
textbox.

Create a new presentation.
View | Toolbars | Control Toolbars
Insert a Command Button
Insert a TextBox

Double click the Command Button
Insert a routine to 'load' the textbox
(See dummy loading routine at the bottom of this post)
Close the Visual Basic Editor

Right click on the textbox.
Select Textbox Properties
Make sure that Multi-line is set to true
Make sure Scroll Bars are set to Vertical

Run it.


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TextBox1.Text = ""
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[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for with
it's built-in placeholders, shapes and text boxes.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide a way of adding text scrollbars to placeholders, shapes and text
boxes, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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