Locking text boxes in Powerpoint

You cannot lock a text box in PowerPoint - however, what you could do is create a rectangle that fills the whole slide area and send it behind the text box. Then set the line and fill attributes of the rectangle to None. Select both the rectangle and the text box and group them using the options on the Draw toolbar.

This will only help to reposition your text box easily if moved - it also makes it a little difficult to move the text box - not impossible though.

Best I can think of would be to create a Visual Basic procedure that sizes and positions the text box where you want it.

You could then set this to run on opening the presentation; so even if someone moved it, it would go back to its correct position.

But this is maybe more complicated than you want.

A workaround might be to set up Guides (View Guides) - your object will then 'snap onto' the guides if it gets close enough.

I am happy to accept the suggeestion from tajsimmons. Thank you.

Hi DKidner,
To close the question, accept a Comment as Answer. To do so, click the Accept button next to the answer-post. ("Accept"/"Answer" button?) There should be such a button next to each comment.

Thank you,
Sebastien