Question

what are placeholder in PowerPoint ​

Answer 1

Answer:

In Microsoft PowerPoint, placeholders are boxes with dotted borders that contain content and reside within a slide layout. All built-in slide layouts that come with PowerPoint contain content placeholders.

Answer 2

How to add a placeholder?

To add/insert a placeholder in master slide follow the steps:

Go to View

Click on Slide Master.

In the Slide Master tab click on Insert Placeholder.

Select text Drag the placeholder on the slide and position it as required.

Woohoo! We just added a text placeholder!

Apart from text placeholder, PowerPoint contain several other type of placeholder that can be used while creating presentation.

So let’s understand the different type of placeholders in PowerPoint!