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I am trying to resize some textbox and shapes with texts in them in PowerPoint. and I cannot resize it proportionally. See the animated gif below for a demo.

Scenario: Let's say you are are working on a presentation slide which contains number of shapes/text/smartArts. And you would like to resize them to make it bigger or smaller. Currently, the only reasonable way I found is to copy them all first and paste it as an image. I can manually resize them one by one and also decrease/increase the font sizes. But there must be a better way to do this?

I did look up on MS support website and other places, but most of them are about resizing single/similar objects.

Here is the gif.

Thank you all.

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DigitalNomad
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If only minimal editing afterward is needed, you can copy the shapes, choose Paste Special | as Enhanced Metafile.

When you resize the pasted metafile, the text will change size along with the shapes.

You might want to move the original group of shapes off the slide in case you need major edits later, or copy/paste it to another (hidden) slide.

Steve Rindsberg
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Here's what I did to solve this:

  1. Group all content.
  2. Go to "Page Setup" and change the size of the slide by a factor of however much you want to scale (be sure to keep the same relative dimensions).
  3. Click "Scale" when asked, and your objects (including font size) will be scaled proportionally.
  4. If needed, you can resize the slide back to whatever size you need it to be, but click "Don't Scale" when prompted to not rescale the content.
Stacy Farina
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Select them all, right-click a blank space in one of them then Group. You should then be able to resize them without them getting messed up. You will still need to increase or decrease the font size but that should be pretty easy to do when they are all selected by pressing CTRL+] (increase) or CTRL+[ (decrease). You can then ungroup them later if need be.

Aenfa
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