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Basic Formatting

Microsoft PowerPoint's Basic Text Formatting ToolsThe term ¨Formatting¨ refers to the appearance of text or objects on a slide.The basic formatting tools are found on the Home tab of the ribbon; the tools you use more often.

There are 2 groups of text formatting tools on the ribbon: The font group and the Paragraph group.

TextFonts are sets of characters, numbers, and symbols in a specific style or design.Auto Fit is enabled by default because it is a useful feature that most users appreciate in most situations. Texts can be italicized, boldfaced, underlined, or formatted with effects. To access font effects go to the Font group´s dialog box launcher to open the Font dialog box. When you hold the mouse pointer over a color box, the color´s name appears in a screen tip. Use the Font Color button to access the palette of colors you can apply to a selected text. Format Painter is a tool that copies formatting from one block of text to another.

IndentationIt determines how far from the text box´s left and right margins the text appears.There are 2 indentation settings:1. Before Text, applies to all lines in the paragraph.2. The second is a specialty setting that varies according to the paragraph type:• Hanging: A reverse indent. The first in line is a reverse-indented by the specific

amount.• First line: A standard first-line indent.• (none): This removes any special indents for the first line, often the most useful

for bulleted and numbered lists.

Creating Numbered ListsTo place a list of itemized information in numeric order. They are used to Place information in a significant order.

Texture fillTextures are graphics that repeat to fill an object with a surface that resembles a familiar material, such as straw, marble, paper, or wood.

Special Effects to WordArtYou can apply special effects to your WordArt objects, such as shadows, reflections, glows, transformations, and more.

Text BoxesIt´s a free-floating box into which you can type text. It can hold a few words, an entire paragraph of text, or even several paragraphs of text.

A text box has eight resizing handles: one in each corner and one in the middle of each side.

Fill and Border to a text box

You can use the Shape Fill and Shape Outline tools to set the formatting for a text box. You are not limited to plain solid colors for text box fills.You can fill using gradients, patterns, textures, and pictures to create interesting special effects.Texture graphics are designed so that edges blend together and it looks likeA single graphic.A pattern fill is a repeating pattern that consists of a background color and a foreground color.

Orienting text in a text box

Change the text direction in a text box so that text runs from bottom tom topOr stacks one letter atop the other. You can also change orientation by rotatingthe text box itself. PowerPoint enables you to set the margins in a text box.

Aligning text boxes on a slide

Aligning a text box ensures that items on a slide align precisely and neatly with one another when it is appropriate for them to do so.The left, right, and center commands on the Align menu refer to horizontal alignment, either in relation to the slide or to other selected content. The top, middle, and bottom commands refer to vertical alignment.

Checking Spellings

PowerPoint compares each word in the presentation to its built-in and customdictionaries, and flags any words that it does not find, plus any instances of repeated words, such as the the.Misspelled words appear with a wavy red underline in the presentation, and youcan deal with each one individually by right-clicking it.

Using the Thesaurus

A thesaurus is a reference book or utility that offers suggestions for wordsthat are similar in meaning to the word you are looking up (synonyms) orThat are opposite in meaning (antonyms).