Office 2013 In Depth

Checking the Presentation for Spelling and Grammar Errors

Making sure that your presentation slides are free of spelling and grammatical errors is important in protecting the veracity of the information in the presentation. If you have obvious spelling errors, for example, the audience will have a hard time taking you seriously. You are probably familiar with the Spelling and Grammar features in Microsoft Word and the fact that they flag spelling and grammar errors automatically: red wavy lines for spelling errors, green wavy lines for grammar errors.

PowerPoint 2013 now provides the same spelling- and grammar-checking capabilities as Word and the other Office applications. Grammar checking in PowerPoint is not enabled by default, but you can ...