How to Curve Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2010. While standard text boxes serve their purposes, modifying the plain text in your PowerPoint presentations can add some compelling visual flair.

Click the style you like. PowerPoint adds text box to your slide that contains sample text in it. Click inside the text box, and press "Ctrl-A" to select all of the text.

The Text Direction feature in PowerPoint changes the orientation of the text to various positions such as Horizontal, Stacked, Rotate all text 90 degrees, and Rotate all text 270 degrees.