PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition

Chapter 8

All about Fonts and Text Formatting

IN THIS CHAPTER

Changing the way your text looks

Formatting your text

Making fanciful text with the WordArt feature

A good presentation is like a fireworks show: At every new slide, the audience gasps, “Oooh … aaah.” The audience is so stunned by the spectacular appearance of your slides that no one really bothers to read them!

Well, not really. Substance is much more important than style. But your substance can be lost if your presentation’s style is dull. So a few ooohs and aaahs, in moderation, are important.

This chapter gets you on the road toward fantastic design by showing you how to take charge of the formatting of your text. If you use PowerPoint templates as the basis for your presentations, your text formats are already controlled by the template. But to put the right amount of polish on your presentation, you need to know a few basic formatting tricks.

Many PowerPoint text-formatting capabilities work the same as in Word. If you want to format text a certain way and you know how to do it in Word, try formatting it the same ...