Quickly separate a PowerPoint textbox into multiple text boxes to split the text up, based on spaces.

PPT Productivity's Split Join feature for PowerPoint lets you separate text into multiple textboxes, or combine text from two or more text boxes. Enter text into a single textbox, then select the textbox and click Split Join. The text will be separated out into multiple textboxes, based on the carriage returns in the text.

This feature is super helpful when copying text to PowerPoint from Microsoft Word or another format. The split textboxes feature preserves paragraph formatting when you have multi-level bullets/ numbering. The feature autosizes the textbox and removes the leading empty paragraph if the split was done at the end of a paragraph.

June 2025 update - the bug that previously caused bolded text to be unbolded in a textbox split has now been fixed