The document discusses various basic text formatting tools found in PowerPoint, including fonts, font styles, colors, and effects that can be used to emphasize text on slides. It also covers formatting options for paragraphs, like indentation, lists, and text boxes. Text boxes can be customized with fills, textures, patterns, shapes, and margins. The document provides tips for checking spelling and using a thesaurus to find synonyms or antonyms.

1. WORKING WITH TEXT.
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2. Basic text formatting tools.
 Are found on Home tab of the ribbon.
 2 groups: Font and Paragraph.
 Fonts are characters, numbers, and symbols
in a specific style.
 They are two fonts: one heading and one body
text.
 Autofit is the most useful… most of the people
use it.
 Text on pp slide can be boldfaced or italicized,
underlined or formatted with others attributes.

3.  Use font styles and efects to
emphazies text on a slide.
 Variety of special effects.
 Font color button in the font group
to acess a palete of colors aplied to
selected text.
 Format painter is a tool that copies
formatting from one block to text
another.

4.  The format painter can copy not only a
character formats but paragraph formats such
as aligments and line spacing.
 set indentation controls horizontal spacing of
a paragraph.
 3 types :
 Hanging, first line, (none)

5.  Numbered list to place a lst of itemized
information in numeric order.
 The wordart fill color is the color you see
inside the word art characters.
 Textures are graphics that repeat to fill an
object with a surface.
 Most wordart styles include a colored outline
around edges.

6.  Texst boxes can be resized to make room for
the room the room for the aditions.
 More control formatting applied to a text box.
 You are not limited to plain solid color for text
box fills. By using: gradients, patterns,
textures, and pictures to create interesing
special efects.
 Texture and patterns: are alternatives to plain
colored fills.

7.  Changing text box shape and applying effects.
 Many boxes? Redefine the default for new text
boxes to match your desired settings.
 Change direction from bottom to top or stacks
in one letter.
 Orienting can be a design enhancement for
your slides.
 Margins control the distance between the text
and the outer border of text box.

8.  Resizing text box margins enables
you to fine- tube text placement.
 It depends it may or may not be set
to wrap the text automatically to
next line when the right margin is
searched.
 You can align the text box itself.
 Soing so ensures that the itemos on
a slide.

9.  Checking spelling compares each word.
 It marks you with red the misspelled words.
 A thesaurus a reference bookor utilitythat
offers suggestions for words that are similar to
meaning.
 Those are (synonyms)
 Or opposite in meaning ( antonyms. )