Text cut off at the edge of a carousel slide: how to fix it

The warning

After every render, edit and font load, the editor checks each slide. An element that sits outside the slide, or text clipped inside a box that hides overflow, marks the slide with an amber ring and a bar that says the text runs past the edge. The ring is amber on purpose: it says look here, not that something is broken.

Fix it in one click

The bar has a Fix it button. It does not change the slide itself. It adds a pending comment on the slide asking the designer to bring the text inside the edge. Press Apply changes, and the designer shortens or resizes the words so they fit.

Fix it yourself

1. Right-click the long text and choose Edit text. Cut the words down; a headline of eight words or fewer reads best on a phone.
2. Or choose Move and resize and drag a corner to make the box fit inside the slide.
3. If one idea needs more room than a slide has, split it over two slides with a comment: "split this slide in two".

Hand edits cost no edit round, so for a few words that is the cheaper way. The guide to editing text by hand has the details.

Why it happens

• The brief contained a lot of text per point, and the designer fitted it onto one slide.
• A translation is longer than the original. German often is.
• A font was changed to a wider one after the layout was made.