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.

For text to overlap in PowerPoint 2007 it has to be entered into separate text boxes. If you think of each text box as a sticky-note, you can envision how PowerPoint works with objects.

If you want to indent and align bullet points in PowerPoint, here is how you can do that. It is possible to indent a bullet point or make bullet points aligned in a text box vertically or ...