Modifying Presentations / Changing Type Attributes
Subtitles of the Movie
When you want to format the text within Powerpoint it works the same as it would say within a word processor. But before we do that I want to say one thing - whenever you choose one of these design templates, like I have here, the design template already comes with a format of text, in other words a font, font colors, that sort of thing, but of course you can change that. In order to change how the text looks it's simply a matter of selecting the text. If I want to change the title: I select the text; I can use my increase font size button; I can change the font here as well on the formatting tool bar; and I can choose a different size; I can bold it; italicize; underline and even if I want, apply a text shadow. I can change the type of font, so it looks like this. Perhaps I should remove the shadows so it doesn't look so strange, something to that effect. Another way to change the format of text - again I will select my heading, go to format in the menu bar to font. I have all of my fonts listed here, I can choose any one of them. If I want to see what it looks like I have to hit the preview button here to the right, so I can see what that looks like. I can choose a font style, a size. Some effects are underline, shadow, emboss, and a color - so now my text looks like this. Perhaps I should change the color. Notice that whenever you choose a color, there are certain colors that follow the scheme or design that you've chosen - these are the ones at the top. But I can choose any color that I like. A couple of tricks to selecting text - double click on a word and that will select the word. So double clicking selects a word - triple clicking selects the paragraph and you can also use the shift key and the arrow keys to select text. Shift and the arrow keys will select character by character. So once you have your text selected you can use the formatting tool bar, or you can go to format to font. Remember that if you change something you need to click on the preview button to the right.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 |
| Author: | Angie Rawling/NMG |
| SKU: | 33125 |
| ISBN: | 1889347930 |
| Release Date: | 2000-03-29 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 91 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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