inserting text and PowerPoint is a
little different than in some of the
other Microsoft applications
you can't insert text everywhere on the
slide you can only insert text into
placeholders or text boxes we've already
inserted text into several placeholders
to do this just click in a placeholder
and the insertion point will appear then
you can begin typing to delete text one
letter at a time just click to place
your cursor next to the text you wish to
delete press the backspace key on your
keyboard to delete text to the left of
the cursor or press the Delete key on
your keyboard to delete text to the
rights of the cursor if you want to
delete more than one letter at a time or
format your text in various ways you'll
need to know how to select text I
decided I don't want a few of these
words on the slide so I'll just delete
them to select the text place the
insertion points next to the text you
wish to select click and hold down the
mouse button and while holding it down
drag your mouse over the text to select
it and now release the mouse button you
can see that a highlighted box has
appeared over the words this lets us
know which text is selected okay now
I'll just press the Delete key on my
keyboard and the selected text is
deleted once you've inserted text you'll
need to know how to format it if you
look in the fonts group on the Home tab
you can see the font style and size drop
down menus when I place my cursor inside
my title placeholder I can see that the
default fonts its caliber e and the
default size for one line of text is 44
if I
click in the subtitle placeholder I can
see the default font size is 32 the
subtitle text is also gray by default
you can change these settings to make
your text look the way you want it to
just select the text you want to modify
we'll select our title a:hover menu will
appear with some basic formatting
commands right now I'll show you how to
use these commands from the ribbon but
when you feel comfortable with
powerpoints you'll find that the hover
toolbar will save you some time to
change the font size and make it bigger
or smaller click the drop down arrow
next to the font size box and the fonts
group on the Home tab as you move your
cursor over the various font sizes a
live preview of the font size will
appear in the document I love the live
preview feature because it lets you see
how the font size will actually look in
your presentation click the font size
you want and it will change in the
document okay that looks really good but
I'd like to try a different font style
I'll just select the text and click the
drop down arrow next to the font style
box on the Home tab just move your
cursor over the various font styles now
just click the font style you want and
it will be changed in the presentation I
think I'll do the same thing with my
subtitle and change the font to
something different
hmm here I like this one there are many
other commands in the font group that
you can use to format your text in
various ways you can change the fonts
color the same way you did the size and
style just click the command and select
one of the color options or select more
colors at the bottom of the list to
access the colors dialog box choose a
color that you want
and click ok there are several other
options in this font group that I want
to show you some of them you may use
often while others you will use less
frequently you can format the text using
the bold italic and underline commands
to use these commands just to let the
text you want to modify and click the
command to remove the formatting you can
just click the command again we can see
how each one works
I think underline may work yeah it looks
pretty good the strikethrough command
makes a line through the text and I
don't use it very often but the text
shadow command adds a little drop shadow
that's really nice the clear formatting
command undoes your recent formatting
changes the change case commands lets
you try different case options without
having to retype for example if I want
my title to be uppercase I can select
the command and a list will appear then
selects uppercase from the list I
actually think this option will look
good