Finding and Replacing Text and Fonts

You can locate and change specific text in a presentation by using the Find and Replace commands on the Edit. You use the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box to locate each occurrence of the text you are looking for, and you use the Replace tab to locate the text and replace it with something else. You can change all occurrences of the text with the click of a button, or only specific occurrences.

The Find and Replace commands include options for more detailed searches:

  • To search for whole words, you select the "Find whole words only" check box. For example, if the text you are searching for is plan, PowerPoint skips over plant.

  • To search for a word or phrase that exactly matches the case, or capitalization, ...

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