WORKING WITH FONTS

Changing Text Fonts in aslide

sometimes while making a presentation, you need to emphasize some topics .In that case you can change the style of writing by making that text bold and underlined. You may also need to change the color ,font or size of the text. PowerPoint provides different types of fonts that can be used to write the text in a presentation. The steps to change the font for  the text in a specific slide are. Select the text Select the Font option from the Format menu .The font dialog  box is displayed (refer Figure 2.15).

Various potion in the Font dialog box are. Font : This list box displays a list of available fonts that can be used. Font style :This list box displays various font styles like Regular, Bold italic and Bold latch .Size : This list box displays the size in points for different fonts Underline : This check box is used to underline the selected text.

Shadow : This check box is used to apply the shadow effect to the selected text. Emboss : This check box makes the selected text the superscript of the text that is placed before the selected text. Subscript :This check box makes the selected text the subscript of the text that is placed before the selected text .Offset : this spin button is used to specify the distance of the text to be placed above or below the superscript and subscript. Color: This drop down list is used to specify the color of the selected text. Make the necessary selections and click ok . The font for the selected text in the slide is changed.

Changing Text fonts in an Entire Presentation

To make the presentation consistent, you would require to replace one font with the other. The steps to change a specific font of  text to another font in all the slides of a presentation at once are. Select the Replace fonts option from the Format menu

The Replace Font dialog box is displayed (refer Figure .2.16)

The options in the Replace Font dialog box  are: Replace: This drop down list is used to specify the font that needs to be changed. With, This drop down list is used to select the font with which you want to replace the exiting font.  Replace button: This button is used to replace the selection. Close button: This button is used to close the dialog box. Make the necessary selections and click the Replace button. Click on the Close button to close the Replace Font dialog box.

 

Finding and Replacing text

Consider a situation in which you have typed i.e. in place of that is . Now you want of replace some of the occurrences of the word i.e. with the words that is To perform this operation, you need to find the word. and then replace it.

You can find a particular word in the presentation and also replace any word with another word. The steps to find a particular word are, Select the Find option from the Edit menu.

The Find dialog box is displayed (refer Figure2.12)

Thevarious options in the Find dialog box are 

Find what : This text box is used to specify the word that you want to search. Match case this check box is used to search for the word having the same case as the word specified in the Find what text box. Find whole words only This check box is used to search the exact word and not the occurrences of the  word in other words.  

Fid Next This button is used to search for the next occurrence of the word. Replace This button is used to specify the word that needs to replace the word specified in the Find what text box. Specify the word that you want to find in the Find what text box. Make the necessary selections as per your requirements. Click on the Find Next button to search for the next occurrence of the word, Click on the Close button The steps to replace one word with another word are, Click on the Replace button in the Find dialog box ( refer Figure2.12)

Alternatively, you can select he Replace option from the Edit menu.

The Replace dialog box is displayed (refer Figure 3.13)

Enter The text that you want to replace in the fine what text box. Enter the replacement text in the Replace with text box. Click on the Find Next button. if you want the specific occurrence of the word to be found and then click on the replace button to replace that word If you want to replace all the occurrences of the word, click on the replace all button.

Changing Text Alignment

More often you would need to align the text in a proper direction so as to increase the readability of the text. The ways in which text can be aligned are. Left- to align the text to the left side of the slide. Right-to align the text to the right side of the slide. Conte-to align the text to the center of the slide.  Justify -to justify the text between the left and right margin of the slide so that margins from both the sides in the slide are equal. The steps to change the alignment of the text are .Select the text for which you want to change the alignment. Select the alignment. option from the Format menu Select the required from the Alignment menu.

Alternatively you can click on the Align Left ,Center or Align Right buttons on the Formatting toolbar (refer Figures 2.14)