Click the text box, which opens the orange "Text Box Tools" tab. On the ribbon, click "Shape Outline," where you have options to change the color and other designs for the border.

Follow the steps below to add and remove Borders or Outlines from Text Boxes or around Paragraphs in Microsoft PowerPoint. Launch Microsoft PowerPoint. Then insert a text box into your slide.

You can move the text box to your preferred page location after you've created and formatted the object with the gray color scheme. Click the "Insert" tab in the main program menu Ribbon.