MICROSOFT POWERPOINT´S BASICS TEXT

FORMATTING TOOLS

MOST OF THE TEXT FORMATTING TOOLS APPEAR IN THE HOME TAB AND ARE DIVIDED IN THE FONT GROUP AND IN THE PARAGRAPH GROUP.

FONTS ARE SETS OF CHARACTERS, NUMBERS, AND SYMBOLS IN A SPECIFIC STYLE OR DESIGN.

POWER POINT 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 LAYOUT AVAILABLE.

CHOSSING FONTS AND FONT SIZES

USING AUTOFIT TO CHANGE TEXT SIZE

TEXT IN THE PLACEHOLDER BOXES ON A SLIDE LAYOUT ARE SET TO AUTOFIT, SO THAT IF YOU TYPE MORE TEXT INTO THEM THEY WILL FIT.

A TEXT ON A POWER POINT SLIDE CAN BE BOLDFACE OR ITALICIZED, UNDERLINED OR FORMATTED (WITH OTHER ATTRIBUTES SUCH AS SHADOW).

USE FONT SIZES AND EFFECTS TO EMPHASIZE TEXT ON A SLIDE.

APPLYING FONT SLIDES AND EFFECTS

AND EASY WAY TO CHANGE TEXT APPEARANCE IS TO MODIFY IT´S COLOR, AND FOR THAT YOU USE THE FONT COLOR BUTTON.

CHANING FONT COLOR

AS YOU FORMAT TEXT IN YOUR PRESENTATION USE THE FORMAT PAINTER TO KEEP SIMILAR TYPES OF TEXT.

COPYING CHARACTER FORMATS WITH THE FORMAT PAINTER

As you format text in your presentation use the format painter to keep similar types of text.

COPYING CHARACTER FORMATS WITH THE FORMAT PAINTER

SET INDENTATION

Indentation controls the horizontal space of a paragraph.

There are 2 indentation settings:

1. Before text

2. Specialty setting that varies according to the paragraph type:

HANGING FIRST LINE (NONE)

POWER POINT ENABLES YOU TO CREATE A NUMBER LIST TO PLACE A LIST OF ITEMIZED INFORMATION IN A NUMERIC ORDER.

WHEN YOU CREATE A NUMBER LIST ON A SLIDE YOU CAN CONTINUED IT AUTOMATICALLY AFTER THE LAST ITEM BY PRESSING ENTER.

CREATE A NUMBER LIST

You can format word art in a number of ways. In the WordArt gallery you modify it by filling the outline, or some interesting effects.

INSERTING A WORD ART

THE WORD ART FILL COLOR IS THE COLOR YOU SEE INSIDE THE CHARACTERS.

CHANGIN THE WORD ART FILL COLOR

APPLING A TEXTURE FILL TO WORD ART

TEXTURES ARE GRAPHICS THAT REPEATE TO FILL AN OBJECT WITHA A SURFACE THAT RESEMBELS A FAMILIAR MATERIAL.

MOST WORD ART STYLES INCLUDE A COLORED OUTLINE AROUND THE EDGES OF WORD ART CHARACTERS

CHANGING THE WORDART OUTLINE COLOR

APPLYING SPECIAL EFFECTS TO WORDART

YOU CAN APPLY SPECIAL EFFECTS TO YOUR WORD ART OBJECTS.

THIS EFFECTS CAN ALSO BE APPLIED TO OTHER OBJECT TYPES.

YOU CAN APPLY WORD ART STYLES TO ANY TEXT IN YOUR PRESENTATION, NOT ONLY IN WORD ART.

FORMATTING TEXT WITH WORDART STYLE

ADDING A TEXT BOX TO A SLIDE

TEXT BOX IS USED TO APPLY TEXT TO ANY SLIDE.

THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF TEXT BOXES

1. WITH WRAP 2. WITHOUT WRAP

TEXT BOXES CAN BE RESIZED IN ORDER FOR TEXT TO FIT.

SIZING A TEXT BOX

ONE OF THE SPECIAL OPTIONS YOU CAN ADD TO YOUR TEXT BOX IS AN OUTLINE OR FILL COLOR.

APPLING FILL AND BORDER TO A TEXT BOX

YOU CAN MODIFY YOUR TEXT BOX COLOR BY MAKING IT GRADIENT, WITH TEXTURE OR INTERSTING EFFECTS.

APPLING SPECIAL FILLS TO A TEXT BOX

APPLING TEXTURE AND PATTERN FILLS

ALTERNATIVES TO PLAIN COLORED FILL

A TEXTURE FILL REPEATES A SMALL GRAPHIC TO FILL THE AEREA

YOU CAN APPLY THE SAME SPECIAL EFFECTS TO TEXT BOXES ON WORD ART.YOU CAN MODIFY THE SHAPE OF A TEXT BOX USING PRESET SHAPES OF POWER POINT.

CHANGING TEXT BOX SHAPE AND APPLYING EFFECTS

CHANGING THE DEFAULT FORMATTING FOR NEW TEXT BOXES

TO MODIFY THE TEXT BOX DEFAULT SETTINGS USE THE DESIRED SETTINGS.

YOU CAN CHANGE THE TEXT DIRECTION IN A TEXT BOX SO THAT TEXT RUNS FROM BOTTOM TO TOP OR IN MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS THIS CAN MAKE TEXT IN THE TEXT BOX MORE VISUALLY INTERESTING.

ORIENTING TEXT IN A TEXT BOX

Margins control the distance the text and the outer boarder of the text box.

SETTING THE MARGIN IN A TEXT BOX

CHANGING THE TEXT WRAP FOR A TEXT BOX

Depending on the type of text box on and the way it was created, it may or may not be set to the wrap the text automatically to the next line.

ALIGNING TEXT BOXES ON A SLIDE

To aligning the text within a text box you can align the text box itself with other objects in the slide.

THE SPELLING FEATURE COMPARES EACH WORD IN THE PRESENTATION TO IT´S BUILD-IN AND CUSTOM DICTIONARIES.

CHECKING SPELLING

A THESAURUS IS A REFERNCE BOOK THAT OFFRES SUGGESTIONS FOR SYNONYMS OR ABNTONYMS.

POWER POINT INCLUDES A BUILD IN THESAUROUS.

USING THE THESAUROUS