Text Decoration

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In this chapter, we will understand how to decorate text in PowerPoint 2010. PowerPoint offers many text decoration features and adds to the aesthetic sense of a presentation. These features can be accessed from the Homeribbon under the Font group.

Given below are the various font decoration features and their functions in PowerPoint.

S.No	Icon & Description
1	Makes the font face bold
2	Makes the font face italics (slanted font)
3	Underlines the font face
4	Adds shadow to the font face
5	Strikes through the font face
6	Adjusts the character spacing for the font. Predefined settings are very tight, tight, normal, loose and very loose. There is a user defined space setting available too.

Besides these, there are some other font decoration features that can be accessed from the Font dialog. To open the Font dialog, right-click on the selected text and select Font.

The table below describes the additional text decoration features in the Fontdialog.

S.No	Icon & Description
1	Double Strikethrough Adds two strike lines over the text
2	Superscript Raises the text above the normal text. For example, the use of "nd" in 2nd
3	Subscript Shrinks the below the normal text. For example, the '2' in H2O the chemical formula of water
4	Small Caps Changes the entire text to small caps
5	All Caps Changes the entire text to capital letters
6	Equalize Character height Adjusts the characters so that all are of the same height regardless of the caps setting