1. Regina Cuevas #6 8°B

2. Basic Text Formatting Tools
 Most of the basic text tools are located in the
Home Tab.
 There are two groups:
 Font Group
 Paragraph group

3. Choosing Fonts and Font Sizes
 Fonts are characters numbers and symbols in
a style or design.
 Power Point has default fonts for headings and
body text.
 Theme is a setting in which you set the
specifications for text.
 To return to the default fonts:
 Select a font from the Theme Fonts section of
the Font drop-down list.

4. Using Autofit to Change Text
Size
 Autofit has the function of:
 If you type more text than what it fits the text will
automatically get smaller so it can all fit.
 If you delete some text when it has already been
autofitted it will automatically get bigger( to it
defaul size)
 This is a very useful feature for some users but
others don’t like it.

5. Applying Font Styles and
Effects
 You can make a text (font styles):
1. Bold
2. Italic
 You can also make it (effects):
1. Underlined
2. Formatted
 This helps us emphasize text.
 To access to more font effects click the Font
Group dialog box to open the dialog box.

6. Changing Font Color
 You can access to changing color in the Home
tab in the Font section using the Font Color
button.
 Power Point has a lot of different color you can
apply to text.
 You can select the theme colors or personalize
your own color.

7. Copying Character Formats With
Format Printer
 Format Painter is a tool that helps you to copy
the format of a text to another text so you don’t
have to be changing all to the same Font.
 To copy multiple times you can double click in
the paintbrush that is located in the Home tab
in Clipboard.

8. Set Indentation
 Indent determines how far will the text will be
from the left or right text box.
 The Before Text applies to all lines in the
paragraph and it is for changing the
paragraph’s indention.
 The second one is:
 Hanging: reverse indent( the other lines have
more indent than the first one.
 First Line: is the standard first-line indent
 (None): removes all the indents for the first line.

9. Creating Numberes Lists
 This is helpful for when you have lists so you
can number them.
 Power Point will continue the number
sequence, to turn off the numbering click on
the Numbering Button 2 times.
 To change the number format click in Bullets
and Numbering.

10. Inserting and Formatting
WordArt
 You can change WordArt color bye clicking
inside the WordArt characters.
 You can apply:
 Color
 Texture
 Special effects
 You do not have to insert WordArt to use the
WordArt styles

11. Adding a Text Box to the Slide
 You can add text on any slide. You can simply
click the slide with the text box pointer.
 Text boxes stretch to the sides as you wrote
more on them.

12. Applying Fill and Bordered
Formatting to a Text Box
 You can click text fill and text outline to make
your text box have outline and fill.
 You can add fills wit texture or plain colors.
 Power Point has a default theme for text boxes
which you may change.
 You can orient text box by changing its
direction and rotating it. This can make your
presentation funnier and it may emphasize
your text.

13. Settings in your Text Box
 This controls the distance between the text
and the border of the text.
 You can use text wrapping depending on the
type of text box.
 You can align text boxes on a slide so all the
text looks balanced.

14. Checking Spelling
 Power Point compares each work in the
presentation to a dictionary and marks the
ones that do not appear. It also deletes the
repeated words
 It is really useful because it helps you realize
what mistakes you make.

15. Using the Thesaurus
 Is a reference that suggests words that are
similar to the meaning of your word or it can
show you the opposites