Mandy,
The short answer is that you can't. To work around it you can create several
textboxes and position them. Or create the whole thing in Word and copy and
paste special it to PowerPoint as a graphic. Or create a WordArt and fiddle
with it till it fits around the object.

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> any ideas how I can tell the text in a box to wrap around an object that
> overlaps it in powerpoint?
> thank you...
Mandy Barnett - 27 Mar 2008 09:51 GMT
I feared that was the answer - many thanks
> Mandy,
> The short answer is that you can't. To work around it you can create several
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> > overlaps it in powerpoint?
> > thank you...
John Wilson - 27 Mar 2008 11:25 GMT
Hi Mandy
As Luc says it can't be done but this tutorial may help.
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/PowerPoint_Text_Wrap.html

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> I feared that was the answer - many thanks
>
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> > > overlaps it in powerpoint?
> > > thank you...