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PowerPoint 2007 now comes with a wider range of text formatting options and character styles. Let's take a brief look at what we have at our disposal these days. Take a look at text formatting first and to format, we need to have some text. Now we have some text that we can format. Like anything else, you need to highlight what you want to work with and from our home tab, we're going to look to our font task group and take a look at our fonts. Now, notice up top, we have the two theme fonts and just by hovering over them, I get the font changing here. So again, we have our two theme fonts. These are the fonts that are recommended for this particular theme that I'm using and then we have the rest of the fonts that come bundled with Office and Vista. So I'm going to go ahead and just work with Ariel because it's staying within our theme and I'm going to go with a body group. Click that and it's applied. I can change the size. Again, notice, I'm getting that automatic preview of what I want and we're going to try and stick with that rule of thumb that the text on your slide is your minimum of 30-point. So we're going to keep it there. We can also manually increase the font size like so. We can decrease. Notice that gives you the corresponding value here. We'll come back to this button in a minute. I can also make this bold, italic, underline, so forth and so on and can also have strikethrough, I can add a shadow, I can also work with the character spacing, from very tight to very loose. We also have some custom options here where we can manually adjust these and then I also have the ability to change sentence case to lowercase, uppercase, capitalize each word and toggle case. Can't think of a reason you would use that, but there you go. We'll leave it upper case for now. And, of course, we can also change the color. Again, we are working with a theme, so this is going to give us a recommended color palette to use so you don't create an eyesore and, of course, if we want to, we can go ahead and pick some different colors here that, that will work with us. There. Of course, you can't read it and you've made enough changes it's a little difficult to go back and hit undo, undo over and over again. Easiest way to do that is this button right here, which just clears all of the formatting, taking us right back to where we are except for the case. So we're going to just return that back to normal and there we go. Oops, I even caught a typo. Of course we can use spell check to fix that. Next, let's take a look at what we can do with working with text in a shape. This is pretty cool. First we need a shape, so let's go to our insert tab, go to a shape, click our button here to see what shapes we have at our disposal and let's use, let's use, here we go. How about an arrow? And we click, there's our arrow. Of course, it's a little small so I'm going to drag the corner here to resize that and make it up a little bigger that way, right there and we need some text. Well, normally you would think that you could just click inside this arrow and you would get a cursor to add text, but you don't. What you have to do is right click, go down to edit text. This is not very intuitive. And then we have a cursor, we can start typing text. So that's, notice that the text kind of flows inside our shape. Going back to our home tab, we can work with text just like we did in the previous slide. We can change different attributes of that, change the size of it. Ok? We can also go a step further here, we can also work on the paragraph formatting. We can make that centered. Can align it to the right, align it to the left, justify. We can also split that into columns if we want to, as well as if we're working with a list, increase the levels, so forth and so on. We can do bullet points and we can also modify the line spacing. One thing I do want to show you here we can change by just clicking once on this little arrow, the text direction. Ok? Notice we do not get a preview with that, but let's go back to our original horizontal. We can also dictate where the text is going to be in the shape as far as middle, top, bottom and, of course, we have some more options where we can manually mess with this a little bit. I'm not going to cover that right now. And then, of course, we can convert this into a SmartArt graphic if we felt like it to do some more cool things. Again, we're not going to cover that now. We'll learn more about SmartArt in a later scene and as you see, we can have quite a few ways that you can play with text to unleash your creativity and make some truly professional-looking presentations.