This document provides an overview of text formatting tools in PowerPoint, including fonts, font styles, text color, indentation, lists, word art, text boxes, and spelling/thesaurus features. It describes how to format text, apply styles and effects, insert graphics, resize and format text boxes, and check spelling. The tools allow fine-tuning text appearance down to the character level for customizing presentations.

1. SOFTWARE
ORIENTATION

2.  Most PowerPoint's basic text formatting tools
are found on the home tab of the ribbon.
 There are 2 groups of text formatting tools on
the ribbon: the Font group and the Paragraph
group.
 They allow you to fine-tune the text on your
slides right down to an individual character.
 They also provide access to the Font and
paragraph dialog boxes that give you more
control over your text´s appearance.

3. Font group
Paragraph
group

4. CHOOSING FONTS AND FONT
SIZES
 Fonts are sets of characters, numbers, and
symbols in a specific style or design.
 There are 2 fonts: one font for the heading and
one for the body text.

5. USING AUTOFIT TO CHANGE
TEXT SIZE
 By default text in the placeholder boxes on a
slide layout are set to auto fit so that if your
type more text into them than will fit the text
automatically gets smaller so that it will fit into
the placeholder box.
Like this

6. APPLYING 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.

7. CHANGING FONT COLOR
 An easy way to change text appearance 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.

8. COPYING CHARACTER FORMATS
WITH THE FORMAT PAINTER
 Format painter is a tool that copies formatting
from one block of text to another.

9. SET INDENTATION
 Indentation controls the horizontal spacing of a
paragraph much as line spacing controls its
vertical spacing.
 Indentation determines how far from the text
box´s left and right margins the text appears.
1. Hanging: a reverse indent
2. First line: a standard first-line indent
3. (none):removes any special indents for the
first line

10. CREATING NUMBERED LIST
 To place a list of itemized information in
numerical order.
 Numbered lists are used for procedural steps,
action items, and other information where the
order in which the items appear is significant.

11. INSERT A WORDART
GRAPHIC
 You can format it in a number of ways.
 You can change the style from the word art
gallery.

12. CHANGING THE WORDART
FILL COLOR
 The word art fill color is the color you see
inside the word art characters.
 You can change the fill color by using the color
palette for the current theme or any other
available color.
 You can also apply a special effect fill to
wordart such as a texture, gradient, or pattern.

13. APPLYING A TEXTURE FILL
TO WORDART
 Texture are graphics that repeat top fill an
object with a surface that resembles a familiar
material such as straw marble paper or wood.

14. CHANGING THE WORDART
OUTLINE COLOR
 Includes a colored outline around the edges of
the word art characters.
 You can fine-tune the outline color of the
object.

15. APPLYING SPECIAL EFFECTS
TO WORD ART
 You can apply special effects to your word art
objects such as shadows reflections glows
transformation and more.

16. FORMATING TEXT WITH
WORDART
 You do NOT have to insert a word art graphic
to use the word art slide.
 Applying word art styles to regular text in a
presentation is an additional way to format the
text to customize the presentation

17. ADDING A TEXT BOX TO A
SLIDE
 Text boxes can be used to a place text on a
slide anyplace you want it
THIS IS A TEXT BOX

18. RESIZING A TEXT BOX
 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.

19. APPLYING FILL AND BORDER
FORMATTING TO A TEXT BOX
 To control over formatting applied a text box
use the shape fill and shape outline tools to
set the formatting for a text box

20. APPLYING SPECIAL FILLS TO
A TEXT BOX
 Its not limited to plain solid colors for text box
fills.
 You can fill using gradients, patterns, textures,
and pictures to create interesting special
effects.

21. APPLYING TEXTURESD AND
PATTERN FILLS
 Textures and pattern fills are alternative to
plain colored fills.
 A texture fill repeats a small graphic to fill the
area

22. CHANGING TEXT BOX SHAPE
AND APPLYING EFFECTS
 You can apply the same special effects to text
boxes as you can to word art, drawn shapes,
and other objects.

23. 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 formatting them.

24. ORIENTING TEXT IN A TEXT
BOX
 You can change the text direction in a text box
so that text runs from bottom to top or stacks
one letter atop the other.

25. SETTING THE MARGINS IN A
TEXT BOX
 PowerPoint helps you to set the margin in a
text box.
 Margins control the distance between the text
and the outer border of the text box.

26. CHANGING THE TEXT WRAP
SETTING FOR A TEXT BOX
 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 next line
when the right margin is reached.

27. ALIGNING TEXT BOXES ON A
SLIDE
 You can align the text box itself with other
objects on the slide, including other text boxes.

28. CHECKING SPELLING
 The spelling feature compares each word in
the presentation to its built-in and custom
dictionaries, and flags and words that it does
not find, plus any instances of repeated
words, such as and and

29. USING THE THESAURUS
 A thesaurus is a reference book or utility that
offers suggestions for words that are similar in
meaning to the word you are looking up or that
are opposite meaning.