PowerPoint offers basic text formatting tools like font, size, style, and color options. It allows inserting text boxes onto slides and formatting them with borders, backgrounds, and alignments. Text boxes can be resized and orientations changed. Numbered lists and spelling/thesaurus tools help create clear presentations.

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2. MICROSOFT POWERPOINT´S
BASIC TEXT FORMATTING
TOOLS
 Most of PowerPoint´s basic text formatting
tools are found on the Home Tab.
 There are two groups of text formatting tools:
the Font group and the Paragraphn group.
 These groups also provide access to the Font
and Paragraph dialog boxes.

3. CHOOSING FONT AND FONT
SIZES
 Fonts are sets of characters, numbers, and
symbols in a specific style or design.
 To mantain formatting consistency between slides
in a presentation, you might prefer to change the
font and font size on Slide Master, which flows
down the change to all slides automatically.
 By default, PowerPoint presentations have two
fonts: one font for the headings and one for the
body text.
 A theme is a set of formatting
specifications, including the colors, fonts, graphic
effects, and slide layouts available.

4. USING AUTOFIT TO CHANGE
TEXT SIZE
You can
change the
 Text in the placeholder boxes on a
AutoFit
setting for a
slide layout are set to AutoFit, so
text box
placeholder that if you type more text into them
as needed.
than will fit, the text automatically
gets smaller so that it will fit into the
You can
choose to placeholder box.
split text
boxes
between two
slides,
continuen on
a new slide,
or change to
a two-column
layout.

5. APPLYIING FONT STYLES
AND EFFECTS
 Text on a PowerPoint slide can be boldfaced or
italicized, underlined, or formatted with other attributes
such as strikethrough or shadow.
 Use font styles and effects to emphasize text on a
slide. Standard font styles:
1) Bold
2) Italic
3) Underline
 PowerPoint provides a variety of special effects such
as strikethrough or small caps.
 To access more font effects, click the Font group´s
dialog box launcher to open the Font dialog box.

6. COPYING CHARACTER
CHANGING FONT COLOR FORMATS WITH THE FORMAT
PAINTER
 To change text color, use the  Format Painter is a tool that
Font Color button in the Font copies formatting from one block
group to access a palette of of text to another.
colors you can apply to  Format Painter makes it easy to
selected text. apply the same formatting to
multiple blocks of text.
 When you hold the mouse
pointer over a color box, the  If you wnat to copy a format only
color´s name appears in the once, simply click the button. To
copy a format multiple times,
ScreenTip. double-click the button. And the
 The difference between a feature will stay on until you turn it
theme color and a standard off.
color is apparent when you  The Format Painter can copy not
switch to a different theme or only character formats but
color scheme. paragraphs formats such as
alignments and line spacing.

7. SET INDENTATION
 Indentation controls the horizontal spacing of a
paragraph.
 Indentation determines how far from the text
box´s left and right margins the text appears.

8. • There are two indentation settings. The first one, Before
Text, applies to all lines in the paragraph. The second one is
a specialityn setting that varies according to the paragraph
type:
• HANGING: a reverse indent. In other words, the first line has a lesser
indent than the other lines, so it hangs off into the left margin. In the
preceding steps, the haanging indent eas 0.6.
• FIRST LINE: a standard first-line indent. The first line is indente an extra
amount on top of what is specified for the Before Text indentation setting.
• (NONE): This setting removes any special indents for the first line.

9. CREATING NUMBERED
LISTS
• Numbered lists place a list of itemized
infromation in number order.
• Are used for produral steps, action items,
and other information where the order in
which the order in which the items appear
is significant.
• To turn off numbering, press Enter twice or
click the numbering button on the home
tab.
• For every more control over the

10. CHANGING THE WORDART FILL
COLOR
 The wordart fill color is the color see inside the
WordArt characters.
 You can change the fill color by using the color
palette for the current theme or any other
available color.
 Yiou can “mix” your own colors on the Custom
tab or click the Standard tab to choose from a
palette of premixed colors.

11. APPLYING A TEXTURE FILL TO
WORDART
 The texture graphics are specially designed so
that the left edge blends in with the right edge
(and the top edge with the bottom edge).

12. CHANGING THE WORDART APPLYING SPECIAL EFFECTS
OUTLINE COLOR TO WORDART
 You have the same  You can apply special
options as for effects to your
changing a fill color. WordArt objects, such
The text outline as
shadows, reflections,
theme colors palette glows, transformation
also allows you to s, and more.
remove the outline,  These can also be
change its weight, or applied to the other
apply a dash style to types, such as drawn
the outline. lines and shapes.

13. FORMATTING TEXT WITH ADDING A TEXT BOX TO A
WORDART STYLES SLIDE
 Applying WordArt  Text boxes can be
styles to a regular used to place text
text in a on a slide anyplace
presentation is an you want it.
additional way to
format the text to
customize the
presentation.

14. APPLYING SPECIAL FILLS TO
RESIZING A TEXT BOX A TEXT BOX
 Text boxes can be  You can fill using
resized to make room
for the addition of gradients, patterns, t
other text boxes or extures, and
objects or to pictures to create
rearrange a text box´s
contents. A text box interesting special
has eight resizing effects
handles: one in each
corner and one in the
middle of each side.

15. APPLYING TEXTURE AND
PATTERN 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.

16. SETTING THE MARGINS IN A ALIGNING TEXT BOXES ON A
TEXT BOX SLIDE
 Margins control the  To aligning the text
distance between
the text and the
outer border of the
text box.

17. CHANGING THE DEFAULT
FORMATTING FOR NEW TEXT
BOXES
 If you are going to create lots of text boxes in a
presentation, there are ways you can save
time in the formatting then.
 One way is to redefine the default for new text
boxes to match your desired settings.

18. ORIENTING TEXT IN A TEXT
BOX
 You can change the text direction in a text box
so that text turns from bottom to top ot stacks
one letter atop the other.
 You can also change orientation.
 Orienting text boxes can be design
enhancement for your slides.

19. SETTING THE MARGINS IN A
TEXT BOX
 Margins control the distance between the text
and the outer border of the text box.
ALIGNING TEXT BOXES ON A
SLIDE
 To aligning the text within a text box, you can
align the text box itself with other objects on the
slide, including other text boxes.

20. CHECKING SPELLING USING THE THESAURUS
 The Spelling feature  A thesaurus is a
PowerPoint reference book or
utility that offers
compares each suggestions for words
word in the that are similar in
presentation to its meaning to the word
built-in and custom you are looking up
dictionaries. (synonyms), or that
are opposite in
meaning (antonyms).