The document discusses various text formatting tools in PowerPoint including choosing fonts and font sizes, using autofit to change text size, applying font styles and effects, changing font color, copying character formats, setting indentation, creating numbered lists, formatting text with WordArt styles, adding and resizing text boxes, applying fills and borders to text boxes, orienting and aligning text boxes on slides, and checking spelling and using the thesaurus.

1. BASIC FORMATING

2. BASIC TEXT FORMATING
TOOLS
O Most of Power Piont’s basic text
formatting tools are found ib the Home
tab. These are tools you will use most
often when working with text.

3. CHOOSING FONTS AND
FONT SIZES
O Fonts are sets of characters, numbers,
and symbols in a specific style or design.
You can change the font and font size at
any time on your slides.

4. USING AUTOFIT TO
CHANGE TEXT SIZE
O By default, text in the placeholder boxes
on a slide layout are set to Autofit, so that
if you type more text into them than will fit,
the text automatically gets smaller so that
it will fit into the placeholder box.

5. APPLAYING FONT STYLES
AND EFFECTS
O Text on a PowerPoint slide can be
boldfaced or intalicized, underlined, or
formated with other attributes such as
strikethrough or shadow.

6. Changing font color
O An easy way to change text appereance is
to modify its color. Use the Font Color
button in the Font group to access a
palette of colors you can apply to selected
text.

7. Copying character formats
with the format painter
O As you format text in your presentations,
you will want to keep similar types of text
formatted the same way. Format Painter is
a tool that copies formatting from one
block of text to another.

8. Set indentation
O Indentation controls the horizontal spacing
of a paragraph, much as line spacing
control in vertical spacing. Determines
how far the box’s left and right margins
the text appears.

9. Creating numbered lists.
O Numbereed lists are used for procedural
steps, action items, and other information.

10. A wordart graphic
O Enhance the appearance of slides titles by
converting them to WordArt.
O You can change the style from WrordArt
gallery, modify the fill or the outline, or you
can apply a number of intresting special
effects.

11. Changing the wordart fill color
O You can change the fill color by using the
color palette for the current theme or any
other available color.

12. Applying a texture fill to the
WordArt
O The textures are graphincs that repeat to
fill an object with a surface that resembles
a familiar material, such as straw, marble,
paper, or wood.

13. Changing the WordArt outline
color
O Just as with a WordArt object’s fill color,
you can fine-tune the outline color of the
object.

14. Applying special effects to
WordArt
O You can apply special effects to your
WordArt objects, such as reflections,
glows, transformations, and more.

15. Formatting thext with
WordArt styles
O You do not have to insert a WrodArt
graphic to use the WordArt styles. You can
apply WordArt styles to any text in a slide.

16. Adding a text bos to slide
O Text boxes can be used to place text an a
slide anyplace you want it.

17. Resizing a text box
O Text boxes can be resized to make room
for the addition of other text boxes or
objects or to rearrange a text box’s
contents.

18. Applying fill and border
formatting to a text box
O If you want more control over formatting
applied to a text box, you can use the
Shape Fill and Shape Outline tools to set
the formatting for a text box on your own.

19. Applying special fills to a text
box
O You can fill using gradients, patterns,
textures, and pictures to create intresting
special effects.

20. Applying texture and pattern
fills
O Texture and pattern fills are alternatives to
plain colored fills. A texture fill repeats a
small graphic to fill the area; texture
graphics are specially designed so that
the edges blend together and it looks like
a single graphic.

21. Changing the default
formatting for new text boxes
O If you are going to create lots of text
boxes in presentation, there are ways you
can save time in formatting them. One
way is to redefine the deafult for new text
boxes to match your desired settings, as
you learn yo do this exercise.

22. Orienting text in a text box
O You can change the text direction in a text
box so that text runs from buttom to top or
stacks one letter atop the other. This can
make thext in the text box more visually
intresting. You can also change orientation
by rotating the text box itself.

23. Setting the margins in a text
box
O Margins control the distance between the
text and the outer border of the text box.

24. Changing the text wrap setting
for a text box
O Depending on the type of text box and the
way it was created, it may or may not be
set to wrap the text automatically to the
line when the right margin is reached.

25. Aligning text boxes on a slide
O You can align the text box itself with other
objects on the slide, inclouding other text
boxes.

26. Cheking spelling
O The Spelling feature in PowerPoint
compares each word in the presentation
to its boilt-in and custom dictionaries, and
flarg any words that it does not fins. Plus
any instances of repeated words, such as
the the. Misspelled words appear with a
wavy red underlined

27. Using the thesaurus
O A thesaurus is a reference book or utility
that offers suggestions for words that are
similar in meaning to the words you are
looking, or that are opposite in meaning.