How to stop PowerPoint automatically increasing font size

If you input more text than can fit inside a text placeholder in PowerPoint, you may find that the text is automatically shrunk to a lower size. This is known as AutoFit. In certain circumstances, this may be beneficial; in others, it may not. Here’s how to disable it. When you know how large you want a box (or any form) on your slide and how big you want the text to be, turning off AutoFit is the best option. In such a scenario, it’s better to let the text spill over the edge of the box so that you may trim it down to fit. Regardless of what you opt-in for you can find all the information you need right here on how to stop PowerPoint automatically increasing the font size.

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Step by step process – How to stop PowerPoint automatically increasing font size

  • Firstly open your PowerPoint file.
  • In the Ribbon, select the “File” tab.
  • Select “Options” from the menu. A dialog box displays on the screen.
  • Select “Proofing” from the left-hand categories.
  • Select “AutoCorrect Options” from the drop-down menu. A dialog box displays on the screen.
  • The “AutoFormat As You Type” tab should be selected.
  • “AutoFit title text to placeholder” and “AutoFit body text to placeholder” should be deselected (unchecked).
  • Finally, “OK” should be clicked twice.

That’s it, pretty much from not on the text will not scale unless you want it to scale by manually using the scaling feature to increase or decrease the text sizes. Although PowerPoint lacks the advanced text wrapping function seen in other Microsoft Office products, you may obtain a similar effect by wrapping text around a visual on a PowerPoint slide using a workaround technique. Wrap text around a square graphic with the Text Box tool, or utilize the Send to Back option to wrap text around an irregularly shaped graphic. You may need to tinker with the wording to reach a satisfying outcome because they are both workaround solutions.

Text autofit options to stop PowerPoint increasing font size

When text doesn’t fit in a text placeholder frame or text box, PowerPoint adjusts the size. PowerPoint lowers the amount of space between lines in a text frame before shrinking the text itself. When there isn’t enough text to fill a text box, PowerPoint enlarges it to accommodate extra content. As part of its AutoFit function, PowerPoint manages overflow text.

It’s entirely up to you how AutoFit works. If you, like me, dislike how PowerPoint enlarges text boxes as you type, you may tell PowerPoint, not to “AutoFit” text and instead make textboxes huge from the start. You may also tell PowerPoint not to shrink text is placeholder text frames if you don’t like how it does so. These articles describe how to use AutoFit settings in your text frames and text boxes to handle overflow text.

The AutoFit Options option appears when the text does not fit in a text placeholder frame and PowerPoint must “AutoFit” the text. As illustrated in Figure, clicking this button opens a drop-down box with choices for dealing with overflow text. The AutoFit choices, as well as a number of additional strategies that we’ll go over later, illustrate the “one at a time” approach to dealing with overflow text. You may also alter the AutoFit parameters for dealing with overflow text.

Step by step process – disable auto-fit options to prevent font scaling

  • Let’s look at what occurs when you write in a text placeholder first. The AutoFit Options button appears if you input more than will fit in the placeholder. To see the available options, click the “AutoFit Options” button.
  • The “AutoFit Text to Placeholder” option is chosen in this example.
  • Click “Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder” to disable AutoFit for the active text box and enable text to extend beyond the placeholder boundary.
  • If you input text outside the text placeholder’s boundaries, the extra text will be inserted, but the font size will not change.

You may now adjust the text to make it fit in your box. Rather than relying on PowerPoint to adjust the font, you may experiment with other fonts and paragraph spacing to see if you can make your text fit.

Edit the text: When text does not fit in a frame, it usually needs to be edited. It should be cut down to size. A treatise is not appropriate for a slide. The only option to make the text fit in the frame without sacrificing the design is to edit it.

Enlarge the frame by selecting Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder from the AutoFit Options shortcut menu. Then, to enlarge the frame, pick it and move the bottom or top selection handles.

Text frames contain internal margins, much like pages, to protect the text from creeping too near to the frame border. You may make extra room for text by decreasing the margins. Choose Format Shape from the context menu when you right-click the text frame. Then, in the Format Shape dialog box’s Text Box category, add lower dimensions for the Internal Margin boxes.

In-depth – Step by step process – How to stop PowerPoint automatically increasing font size

Step by step breakdown

  • Firstly open your PowerPoint file.
  • In the Ribbon, select the “File” tab.
  • Select “Options” from the menu. A dialog box displays on the screen.
  • Select “Proofing” from the left-hand categories.
  • Select “AutoCorrect Options” from the drop-down menu. A dialog box displays on the screen.
  • The “AutoFormat As You Type” tab should be selected.
  • “AutoFit title text to placeholder” and “AutoFit body text to placeholder” should be deselected (unchecked).
  • Finally, “OK” should be clicked twice.

That’s pretty much it; the text will not scale unless you manually raise or reduce the text sizes using the scaling tool. Although PowerPoint does not have the sophisticated text wrapping feature seen in other Microsoft Office applications, you may get a similar effect by wrapping text around a graphic on a PowerPoint presentation using a workaround approach.

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