2. 1. Most of PowerPoint´s basic text
formatting are found on the Home
tab of the ribbon.
2. There are two groups of text
formatting tools on the Ribbon: the
font group and the paragraph
group.
3. Fonts
Fonts are sets of characters, numbers, and
symbols in a specific style or design.
Power point presentations have two fonts: one
for headings and one for body text.
A theme is a set of formatting specifications,
including the colors, fonts, graphic effects, and
slide layouts available.
5. Changing font color
Use the Font Color button in the
font group to access a palette of
colors you can apply to selected
text.
Format Painter
Format painter is a tool that copies
formatting from one block of text to
another.
6. Indentation
Indentation controls the horizontal
spacing of a paragraph.
Line spacing controls its vertical spacing.
There are two indentation settings:
1. Hanging: a reverse indent.
2. First Line: a standard first-line indent.
3. (none): this setting revomes any special
indents for the first line.
7. Numbered Lists Wordart fill color
PowerPoint enables The WordArt fill
you to create color is the color you
numbered lists to see inside teh
place a list of WordArt characters.
itemized information You can change
in numeric order. color or apply a
special effect.
8. Texture
Textures are graphics that repeat to fill an
object with a surface that resembles a familiar
material.
Outline Color
Most WordArt styles include a colored outline
around the edges of the WordArt characters.
Special Effects
You can apply special effects to your WordArt
objects, such as shadows, reflections, glows,
transformations, and more.
9. Formatting text
with WordArt Adding Text Box
styles
You can apply Text boxes can be
WordArt styles to used to place text
any text in a slide. on a slide anyplace
you want it.
10. Resizing a text box
Text boxes can be resized.
The height automatically fots the content
A text box has eight resizing handles.
11. Applying texture and pattern fills
A texture fills repeats a small graphic to fill the
area.
A pattern fill is a repeating pattern that consists
of a background color and a foreground color.c
Changing text box shape and applying
effects
You can apply special effects to text boxes as
you can to WordArt, drawn shapes, and other
objects.
These effects include reflection, glow, 3-D
effects, etc…
12. Orienting text in a text box
You can change the text direction in a text box.
Setting the margins in a text
box set the margins in
PowerPoint enables you to
a text box.
Aligning text boxes on a slide
You can align the text box itself with other
objects on the slide.
13. Checking Spelling
The spelling feature compares each
word in the presentation to its buiult-in
and custom dictionaries.
14. The 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 in meaning.