PowerPoint® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

4. Working with Text

In This Chapter

• Adding Text to a Placeholder

• Using AutoFit

• Using Text Boxes

• Formatting Text

• Using Bullets

• Using Numbered Lists

• Using WordArt

• Proofing Your Text

• Looking Up a Synonym in the Thesaurus

Adding and formatting text is a straightforward process in PowerPoint. If the standard formatting isn’t enough, however, PowerPoint also offers sophisticated text formatting and customization. In addition, it automates many formatting tasks if you’re in a hurry or have limited design skills. In this chapter, you find out how to add and format text, text boxes, bullets, numbered lists, and WordArt, and you also discover how to spell check the text in your presentation.

Adding Text to a Placeholder

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