How to add text to PowerPoint, which when clicked is replaced by the cursor?

Question

Everyone knows that “Click to Add a Title” on the first page of a PowerPoint slide - the moment you click on it, the text will disappear. This is a very useful feature for creating templates. Does anyone know how to simulate this behavior? Is this standard functionality or some VBA code is required? If so, how to do it.

Answer 1

Yes, there are several different ways to do this. As said, placeholders are one way, and if you go into an Open XML document (rename the ext. Of your file to .zip), you can even change the words "Click to add a name." Another way is to use text fields and a macro to simulate this.