1. Basic Formatting

2. Basic Formatting
O Most of the basic tools are found in the
Home tab.
Font Group
Paragraph
Group

3. Using fonts and sizes
Fonts: Are sets of characters, numbers, and symbols in a specific
style or desing.
You can change
the font and the
font size at any
time on your
slides.

4. Using autofit to change size
O By default, text in the placeholder boxes
on the slide layout are the set to AutoFit,
so that if you type more text into them it
will fit, the text automatically gets smaller
so that it will fit into the placeholder box.
The text
so that if
you type automatically
more text gets smaller so
into them
it will fit that it will fit into
the placeholder
box.

5. Changing Font Color
O An easy way to change text appearance is
to modify its color.

6. Applying Font Styles and
Effects
O Text on a PowerPoint slide can be
boldfaced underlined, on formatted with
other attributes such as strikethrough or
shadow.
BOL ITALI UNDERLIN Text
Shadow
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7. Copying Character Formats
with the Format Painter
O Format painter is a tool that copies
formatting from one book of text to
another.

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

9. Creating Numbered Lists
O Numbered lists are
list are used for
procedural steps,
action items, and
other information
where the order in
which the items
appear is
significant.

10. Inserting a WordArt Graphic
O You can change the style from the
WordArt gallery, you can modify the fill or
the outline, or you can apply a number of
interesting special effects. You can also
modify the text of the graphic at any time.

11. Changing WordArt Fill Color
O The fill color is the color
you see inside the
WordArt characters. You
can change the fill color
by using the color palette
for the currect theme or
any other available color.

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

13. Changing WordArt outline
color
O You can change the outline color to texts
you´ve made with Word Art.

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

15. Formatting text with WordArt
Styles
O You can apply Word Art styles to any texts
in a slide.
O Text fill
O Text outline
O Text Effects

16. Adding a text box to a slide
O In text boxes you can add additional
information.

17. Resizing a Text Box
Text boxes can be resized to make room for
the addition of the other text boxes or objects.

18. Applying fill and border
formatting to a text box
O You can apply different colors to your text
boxes.

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

20. Changing Text box shape and
applying effects
O You can also
have text boxes
in different
shapes.

21. Changing the default
formatting for new text boxes
O If you are going to create lots of text
boxes in a presentation.
O One way is to redefine the default for new
text boxes to match your desire settings.

22. Orienting text in a text box

23. Setting the margins in a text
box
O Power point enables you to set margins in
a 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
next line when the right margin is reached.

25. Aligning text boxes on a slide
O You can align everything on the slide
specially the textboxes.

26. Checking Spelling
O Automatically checks spelling, and when
you click on the word with red it the
options to change appear.

27. Using the Thesaurus
O Is a reference book or utility that offers
suggestions for words that are similar in
meaning to the word you are looking up
(Pritt, glue stick) or that the opposite in
meaning (Black, white)