Microsoft® Office PowerPoint 2007 Step by Step

Chapter 3. Working with Slide Text

Chapter at a Glance

In this chapter, you will learn to:

• Entering Text

• Editing Text

• Adding and Manipulating Text Boxes

• Correcting and Sizing Text While Typing

• Checking Spelling and Choosing the Best Words

• Finding and Replacing Text and Fonts

• Changing the Size, Alignment, Spacing, and Look of Text

In later chapters of this book, we show you ways to add fancy effects to electronic slide shows to really grab the attention of your audience. But no amount of animation, jazzy colors, and supporting pictures will convey your message if the words on the slides are inadequate to the task. For most of your presentations, text is ...