Highlight text and change fonts

1. Highlight text and change fonts In the message bar, click Enable Editing, then press F5 or click Slide Show > From Beginning to start the course. If the videos in this course don’t play, you may need to download QuickTime or just switch to PowerPoint 2013. j

2. Highlight text and change fonts Closed captions For example, here, we’ve highlighted our company’s mission statement with a yellow glow. Another thing you might do to call out text is turn the mouse pointer into a laser pointer Up next: Change the font style for a presentation. In a slide show, sometimes you want to highlight or point to a word or paragraph for emphasis. But the laser pointer reappears when I press and hold the mouse button, as long as I’m still pressing Ctrl. and underscore important points as you speak. Unlike in Word, in PowerPoint there is no Text Highlight Color button. Instead, you highlight the text by adding a glow color. Here’s the text we want to highlight. To add the glow color, first I’ll select the text by dragging with the mouse. When I let up the mouse button, the mouse pointer returns. As I mention each company value, such as “Medicine for all,” I can emphasize it with the pointer. Press and hold Ctrl and also press and hold the left mouse button. That activates the laser pointer. Now, to use the laser pointer to call out text while you present, here’s what you do. Let’s look at how to use both methods for text, starting with a glow color. We’re finished with the Format Shape pane, so I’ll click the X to close it. The increased glow creates a more blended highlight, and the glow is easier to see. Next to Size, I’ll click the Up arrow and increase the glow to 50 points. I can increase the glow, if I want. I’ll select the text again, click Text Effects, point to Glow, and click Glow Options. The text now has a yellow glow as a highlight. And now let’s click Slide Show, to see the glow highlight in that view. For the strongest yellow glow, I’ll choose this one, called Gold, 18 pt. glow. And when I point to an effect, it previews on the text. The effect we want is Glow. When I point to it, a gallery of glow effects appears. Look for Text Effects, here, and click it. The Format tab has a group called WordArt Styles for formatting text with colors, glows, and other effects. When I select the text, the Drawing Tools Format tab appears. I’ll click it. Press F5 to start, Esc to stop 1/2 videos 1 • 2 • 3 4 5 2:47 3:22 Help Highlight text Change fonts Feedback Summary

3. Highlight text and change fonts Closed captions In the Font list, Calibri is selected, Now, I’ll click the subtitle text on the slide and look in the Font box. I see that the Calibri font is applied. section titles, and all slide titles. To see more about the font, click the arrow in the Font box. The Font box shows that this title has the font Calibri Light. Then click the Home tab, and look at the Font box. To see what fonts have been applied, click the text, such as this slide title. For this slide show, we chose a Blank Presentation, on the New screen, and that came with a certain font style. let’s look at the fonts that are currently applied and see how they’re used on the slides. We’ll step through this process, but first, In the Fonts gallery, you can select a new font style, and it will apply to the whole presentation. you don’t need to change the text one paragraph at a time. To use a different font style for the text in your presentation, Calibri Light is selected and we see that it’s applied to headings—meaning the presentation title, For more information, see the course summary, and experiment some more with PowerPoint. So, we’ve changed the font style everywhere, just as we wanted. Instead, click the Design tab, and go to the Variants group. Click More, and point to Fonts. The Candara font is applied to the other slides, also, for the title text and body text. and we see that it’s applied to body text—which means the subtitles as well as body text on the slides. There’s nothing more we need to do. and when we click the body text, we see it’s Calibri. So, the same fonts are applied throughout. Now, to apply different fonts to the presentation, we click Design, and in the Variants group, click the More arrow. Then, we point to Fonts. The Fonts gallery includes other font styles—combinations of fonts for headings and body text. The current style—Calibri Light and Calibri—is selected. If we click slide 2 and click its title, we see the title text is Calibri Light, When I point to the style, I see the preview. This one uses Arial for both headings and body text; this one applies Candara; and this one applies Century Gothic. Now, let’s preview some of the others. Scroll down for more choices. Here’s Cambria and Garamond. Let’s apply Candara. Now I’ll click the Home tab, click the title text, and look in the Font box. Candara is applied. When I click the subtitle, Candara is also applied there. Press F5 to start, Esc to stop 2/2 videos 1 • 2 • 3 4 5 2:47 3:22 Help Highlight text Change fonts Feedback Summary

4. Help Course summary—Highlight text and change fonts Course summary Highlight your text The typical method for highlighting text with color is not available in PowerPoint 2013. However, there is another great way to accomplish this using the Glow text effect. • Select the text on the slide. • Under Drawing Tools, click the Format tab. • Click Text Effects > Glow, and choose a Glow Variation. • To increase the glow, click Text Effects > Glow > Glow Options, and increase the number in the Size box in the Format Shape pane on the right. Turn your mouse into a laser pointer In Slide Show view or in Reading view, you can turn your mouse into a laser pointer to draw your audience’s attention to something on a slide. • Do one of the following: • To use the laser pointer in Slide Show view, click Slide Show, and in the Start Slide Show group, click either From Beginning or From Current Slide to start your slide show. • To use the laser pointer in Reading view, click View > Reading View. • Press and hold Ctrl, click the left mouse button, and point to the contents on the slide that you want to draw attention to. If you want your audience to see the laser pointer, but not your mouse pointer, be sure to press and hold Ctrl before you move your mouse to keep the mouse pointer hidden. • To change the color of the laser pointer, do the following: • Click Slide Show > Set Up Slide Show. • In the Set Up Show dialog box, under Show options, select the color that you want from the Laser pointer color list, and click OK. See also • Highlight your text • Turn your mouse into a laser pointer • Zoom in to part of a slide in Slide Show view • More training courses • Office Compatibility Pack Press F5 to start, Esc to stop 1 • 2 • 3 4 5 2:47 3:22 Help Highlight text Change fonts Feedback Summary

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