Change Text Color

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In this chapter, we will understand how to change text color in PowerPoint 2010. The following are the steps to change text color.

Step 1 − Select the text the color of which needs to be changed.

Step 2 − Go to the Font group under the Home ribbon.

Step 3 − From the Font Color dropdown, select the color you want to use for your text.

Step 4 − Click on your choice to change the font color for the selected portion of text.

If you want to choose from a wider range of colors than what's shown in the dropdown you can click on "More Colors…"

Here you can pick from a standard color palette for a greater choice of predefined colors or create your own from the custom color palette.

Change Text Size

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The following steps will help you change the text size.

Step 1 − Select the text the case of which you want to change.

Step 2 − Go to the Font group under the Home ribbon.

Step 3 − From the Font Size dropdown, select the size you want to use for your text.

Step 4 − Click on your choice to change the font size for the selected portion of text.

Step 5 − If you want to change the font size in steps you can also use the Increase/ Decrease Font Size options.

Change Text Case

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The following steps will help you change the text case.

Step 1 − Select the text the case of which you want to change.

Step 2 − Go to the Font group under the Home ribbon.

Step 3 − From the Change Case dropdown, select the case you want to use for your text.

Step 4 − Click on your choice to change case for the selected text.

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

Setting Text Fonts

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PowerPoint offers a wide range of pre-built fonts to choose from. Depending on the purpose of the presentation you may want to choose a more casual font or a formal one. This section will look at the steps to set the text fonts.

Step 1 − The default font in PowerPoint 2010 is Calibri.

Step 2 − To change the text font, select that portion of text the font of which needs to be changed. If you select the entire text box or shape, the changes will apply to all the text in the selection. If you select specific text, the changes will apply to selection only.

Step 3 − In the Font group, under the Home ribbon, click on the font face dropdown.

Step 4 − Scroll through the list of font faces to pick the one that suits your needs. As you move your cursor over the fonts, the selection will change accordingly to give you a preview.

 

Font Management

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One of the key elements of any good presentation is the text, hence managing the fonts in PowerPoint is vital to designing an impressive slideshow. PowerPoint offers extensive font management features to cover various aspects of fonts. The font management can be accessed from the Homeribbon in the Font group.

You can also access font management features by selecting a text box, right-clicking and selecting Font.

This opens up the Font dialog which contains all the font management features available under the font section in the Home ribbon.

The table below describes various font management features available in PowerPoint.

S.No	Features & Description
1	Font Type Defines the font type like Arial, Verdana, etc.
2	Font Size Defines the font size. Besides, there are icons to increase and decrease the font size in steps in the Font group.
3	Font Style Defines font styles like Regular, Bold, Italics or Underlined.
4	Font Color Specifies the font color.
5	Font Effects Defines effects like shadow, strikethrough, subscript, superscript, etc.
6	Character Spacing Specifies character spacing like loose, tight, normal, etc.

Slides Zoom In-Out

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PowerPoint allows users to zoom in and zoom out of the slides to help focus on specific sections or look at the entire slide as a whole. The minimum zoom supported by PowerPoint is 10% and the maximum is 400%. The zoom bar is located in the bottom right corner of the PowerPoint window.

To change the zoom settings from the zoom bar, you can click on the marker and drag it. Dragging to the left will zoom out and to the right will zoom in.

Alternately, you can click on the zoom percent to open the zoom dialog. Here you have the option to auto-fit the slide in the screen, or choose from six pre-defined zoom settings, or define your own zoom setting.