ShufflePoint Studio for PowerPoint - Placeholder Editing

If the selected slide is in the Presentation panel, then moving the mouse over the Slide Preview image will expose a green box when the mouse is over editable content. Clicking inside this box will change the box color from green to red, indicating that the underlying content has been selected for editing or data association. If the selected content is a text placeholder (not a table or chart), then the editor can be used to modify it.

Click the Editor button at the bottom of the Slide Preview panel to open the editor. You can also double-click inside a green box as a shortcut to both select the content and open the editor. When the content has been edited and saved by clicking the Save button in the editor window, the preview image will be updated to reflect the new content if the Refresh Image checkbox is checked. If you do not check Refresh Image, you can update the image later by clicking on the Refresh image with latest data button at the bottom of the Slide Preview panel. You can revert the selected content to the slide's original catalog value by clicking the Revert button at the bottom of this panel.

Editor Buttons

The following formatting buttons are available within the editor.

Select Font Set the font for the currently highlighted text. The font list is based on the fonts installed on your PC. Note that symbol fonts such as Wingdings or Webdings are not supported.
Font Size Set the font size of the currently highlighted text.
Bold Make the currently highlighted text bold.
Italic Make the currently highlighted text italic.
Underline Make the currently highlighted text Underlined.
subscript Make the currently highlighted text subscript.
superscript Make the currently highlighted text superscript.
shadow Make all text shadow.
Color Set the color of the currently highlighted text. The first 8 colors represent those defined by the slide's master. If the slide uses other colors then they will appear next. The remaining colors are standard ones you may find useful.
Align Left Align the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs left.
Center Center the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs.
Align Right Align the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs right.
Justify Justify the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs.
Bullet Make the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs bullet items.
Decrease Indent Decrease the indent of the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs.
Increase Indent Increase the indent of the current paragraph or all currently selected paragraphs.
Insert Soft Return Insert a soft return at the current cursor position. Soft returns are inserted in PowerPoint® using shift-enter. They appear as the ¶ character within the ShufflePoint editor.
Insert Tab Insert a tab at the current cursor position. Tabs appear as the » character within the ShufflePoint editor.

Editor Checkboxes

The editor contains two checkboxes - "Word Wrap" and "Auto Size". These correspond to the equivalent checkboxes in PowerPoint, which are located in the "Text Box" tab of the "Format AutoShape" dialog. "Word Wrap" corresponds to PowerPoint's "Word wrap text in AutoShape" and "Auto Size" corresponds to PowerPoint's "Resize AutoShape to fit text".

Supported Characters & Symbols

The editor supports all Unicode characters. Symbols from fonts such as Wingdings are not supported, and will appear as an unexpected character in the editor. Unicode does support most of the symbols needed for professional PowerPoints. Adding or editing Unicode can be done on Windows® using the Character Map utility (under Start/Accessories/System tools). On the Macintosh®, use the Character Palette utility to enter Unicode characters. You will need to insert the character first into TextEdit and then copy and paste it to the ShufflePoint editor dialog.