You must strike the right balance between media files and text to create an engaging presentation. When you insert several photos in a slide, wrap the text around them to enhance its visual appeal. It also adds a professional touch and conveys the message better.

When you add text and images to a slide, you may need to change the text position so that it doesn’t overlap with the inserted media. Whether you use Google Slides on a desktop or rely on the company’s apps on your iPhone,budget Android phone, or tablet to make last-minute tweaks, check the tips below to wrap text around images in no time.

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What is text wrap in Google Slides?

Text wrapping is a common feature in popular Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 apps, like Docs, Sheets, Word, Excel, and Google Slides. It wraps text around other slide content like photos and videos. You can resize text content and place it in a relevant position on a slide.

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Wrap text in Google Slides on the web

Since most Google Slides users prefer a web version, let’s start with it. Follow the steps below to insert an image and add text around it.

Now, it’s time to wrap the text around your image. Unlike Google Docs, there isn’t a one-click solution to adjust your text automatically. You’ll rely on a workaround.

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Tweak wrap text effect in Google Slides

You can also play with text formatting options in Google Slides. This is a neat way to improve the text wrap effect.

The option produces a clean edge on the left and right. It takes care of uneven gaps and rivers in the text.

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Wrap text in Google Slides apps

The ability to wrap text in Google Slides is available on mobile and tablet. We use Google Slides for iPad in the screenshots below.

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Benefits of wrapping text in Google Slides

Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides isn’t smart enough to show design ideas based on your added text, images, and other graphical elements. When you add images and text, you must manually adjust them for a cohesive look. Here are some of the advantages of wrapping text in Google Slides.

Improvise your pitch

Your presentation may look busy, cluttered, and unprofessional without text wrapping. It only requires a few clicks and small adjustments to make your text look organized with other slide elements. you may also tweak text from the Google Slides mobile apps.

If you don’t want to deal with text wrapping and other formatting options, start with atop Google Slides templateand make the required changes quickly to complete a presentation.

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