How to Curve Text in PowerPoint

There are many reasons for you to want to curve text in PowerPoint. It could be to fit some words around a design element, or for other purposes:

Whatever you may need it for, here’s a very simply tutorial on how you can curve text in PowerPoint.

How to Curve Text in PowerPoint

Curving text, if done correctly, can add visual interest to your slides. Here are several methods you can use to curve text in your presentation:

Starting off with the most fun feature in PowerPoint, at least when I was a kid, WordArt! You can use WordArt to curve the text in your PowerPoint presentation. (Or you can use normal text placeholders as well, but you may need to make more adjustments to make the text look better).

Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide where you want to add the curved text.

Click on Insert in the ribbon menu.

Select WordArt, choose a style from the drop-down menu.

Type your desired text in the WordArt box and click OK.

After that’s done, you need to now customize the WordArt.

Select the text within the WordArt box.

Go to the Shape Format tab.

Click on Text Effects under WordArt Styles.

From the dropdown, select Transform and choose one of the Follow Path.

This is a fairly simply way to curve text in PowerPoint. Let’s look at an alternative method now:

How to Wrap or Curve Text Around a Circle

To create text that completely wraps itself around a circle, choose Circle under the Follow Path:

Now after clicking, it might not look like a circle just yet, what you need to do is now select the text box and drag the side handles to adjust the text so that it forms a circle:

There you have it, this is the simplest tutorial out there to help you learn how to curve text in PowerPoint.

Remember that you can also do this with normal text as well. Simply insert some text into a placeholder and follow the same steps as above.

Be sure to format your text that it appears like it fits into the slide design. This includes changing the font, font color, making the text bold, and more. This is why I suggested using WordArt, since the text already looks great from the start, and it’s easy to customize as well.

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