About text boxes, Autoshapes and pictures

Text boxes, Autoshapes and pictures, the main elements that are used to compose a slide, share similar properties and are arranged on a slide in a similar way. The following table summarizes the relationship:

 

 

Text boxes

Autoshapes

Pictures

Interior fill

Pictures, gradients, textures, patterns

Pictures, gradients, textures, patterns

Pictures, gradients, textures, patterns

Border

Yes

Yes

Yes

Can add text

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 

Move and size

Yes

Yes

Yes

Rotate

No

Yes (if no text is added)

Yes (if no text is added)

Group together

Yes

Yes

Yes

Set order (to front or back)

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

As you can see, an Autoshape and a picture are really the same thing as far as Presentation is concerned (an Autoshape drawn as a rectangle with an interior fill set as an image is the same as a picture). The differences between text boxes and an Autoshapes are: