Edit
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What
You'll Learn: Now
that you've created a file, added
some text, and pasted
a graphic to a slide, it's now time to edit and
embellish your text... We'll create some bullets,
and then change their font, font size, color and
font type face.
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Insert
a new bullet slide, by clicking Insert |
New Slide on the main menu (figure 1). |
See
the lesson on adding slides,
if you need a refresher. Your resulting slide should
look something like that in Figure 2. |
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Figure
1. Using the Main menu to create a new
slide.
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Figure
2. The resulting additional slide. |
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Title
the slide "Colors." |
A
slide title that looks similar to that in the graphic
below. |
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Type
four bullets with the text "Red", "Yellow", "Green",
and "Blue", pressing Enter after
each word is typed. |
You'll
see four bullets like the ones in the Figure below. |
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Click
on and highlight the word "Red". |
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then see the display in reverse video,as below. |
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Click
on Format on the main menu. |
A
drop down menu will appear. |
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Click
on Font on the drop down menu. |
The Font dialog
box appears. |
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Click
on the Color: field. |
A
drop down menu appears, with a variety of selections
for different colors. |
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Click
on "more colors". |
The
colors dialog box appears. |
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Click
on the color red on the color hexagon. |
The
color that you have selected will appear in the
new color box located in the lower right corner
of the colors dialog box. This box shows the Current (or
presently-selected color) text color, the top of
the box displays the New color (i.e.,
red).
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Click
on the OK button. |
The Color dialog
box will disappear, and the Font dialog
box will be visible. Actually, the Font dialog
always remained on the screen, it was just behind
the Colors dialog so you probably
weren't able to see it... |
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Click
on the OK button once more. |
Note
in the graphic below that the Color: field has changed
from the original font color (black) to the new font
color (red). Once the Font dialog
closes, the slide that you were working on will be
visible. |
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Click
anywhere on the slide. |
The
color of the text that was selected has changed to
the color that was chosen in the Color dialog
box. In this case, red. |
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Change
the color of each of the remaining bullet points. |
Each
of the bullets will display the color that you
selected for it. |
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Tired
of accessing the main menu every time you want
to change text color? Time for a shortcut, then.
Highlight some text, then click on the Font
Color icon on the button bar.
If you
want to change the selected text to the color
indicated in the icon, click on the letter with
the colored underline as shown in Figure 1.
If you
want to change the color to a different color
from that shown in the Text Color icon,
click on the down arrow button just to the right
of the colored letter, as displayed in Figure
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You'll
see the same dialogs as shown in the last few steps;
the only difference being that you'll be saved a
few clicks by not having to access the main menu. |
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Figure
1. Click the text color icon to change
the selected text.
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Figure
2. Click the down arrow if you want to change
the color that
you want to apply to the selected text. |
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We've
changed the color, now let's change the font itself.
There should be numerous fonts on your machine;
we'll select one of them now.
First,
highlight some text; in this case, we've highlighted
the word "Blue" (Figure 1).
Then, click
on the font list drop down menu on the icon bar,
as in Figure 2. In this display, the font list
is on the left-hand side of the screen; on your
machine, it may be in the center or on the right-hand
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drop down menu appears, on which an alphabetized
list of all the fonts on your machine appears.
Since different fonts are loaded on different machines,
you'll find that each of these lists is somewhat
different from machine to machine.
If you
add fonts at later date, they'll show up on the
font list after you open PowerPoint.
Since
fonts can be on one machine but not others,
it's important that you package the fonts as
you save your PowerPoint presentation. Doing
so will incorporate the font into the actual
file itself. When you play the presentation
on another machine that may not have a specialized
font that you've selected for the display,
the font will appear as it does on your machine
because PowerPoint "brought" the
font along with the file. How
this is done has been overviewed in the lesson Save
Your File. |
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Figure
1. Select the text you want to change.
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Figure
2. Click the drop down arrow, and a fonts list
appears. |
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On
the font list, click on the font of your choice.
In the example below, we've selected the font called
Eaglefeather, a Frank Lloyd Wright font. |
The
font that you choose will appear in reverse video;
when you click on it, the drop down menu disappears
and the font of your choice is shown in the font
list. |
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Figure
1. Choose a font.
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Figure 2. The new font is listed.
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Figure
3. The font is changed for the selected text. |
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On
the button bar, and just to the right of the font
selection list, are four icons that will change
another property of fonts: the font type. Select
some text, then click one or all of the icons to
see how your font changes. In the example below,
if you click the icon for Bold, your text becomes Bold-enized. |
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four options include:
Bold: 
Italic: 
Underlined: 
Shadowed: 
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So
far we've changed the font, the font type, and
the color. We can also change the font size, as
we'll do now.
Just to
the right of the Fonts List is a filed with a
number and a down arrow; this is the font size.
Under this font size field, click on any
number larger than the number you currently see:
48, for example. |
You
may need to use the scroll bar in this field in
order to see the larger numbers.
In the
world of fonts, the smaller the number, the smaller
the font; the larger the number, the larger the
font, as displayed in Figure 2. |
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Figure
1. The Font Size drop down box; presently,
a font size of 32 is selected.
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Figure
2. The font size for the word "blue" was
set at the original size of 32 points
on the left, but has been changed to 48 points on the right. |
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We've
made a number of changes to the font attribute
of the word you selected; now it's time to take
a look at it in presentation mode, of full-screen
mode.
In the
lower-left corner of the screen are some small
icons that will let you change what you're seeing
on the screen; one of these will play your presentation
at full screen.
Click
on the preview button (seen as "Set Up Show" in
the Figure below.) |
The
attributes that were selected in the font dialog
box will be applied to the text that was selected;
you'll see the example in full-screen mode. |
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