WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:08.189 --> 00:00:14.070 Inserting text in PowerPoint is a little different than in some of the other Microsoft applications. 00:00:14.070 --> 00:00:17.610 You can't insert text everywhere on the slide. 00:00:17.610 --> 00:00:22.539 You can only insert text into placeholders or text boxes. 00:00:22.539 --> 00:00:26.410 We've already inserted text into several placeholders. 00:00:26.410 --> 00:00:31.490 To do this, just click in a placeholder and the insertion point will appear. 00:00:31.490 --> 00:00:34.829 Then, you can begin typing. 00:00:34.829 --> 00:00:41.100 To delete text one letter at a time, just click to place your cursor next to the text 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:43.460 you wish to delete. 00:00:43.460 --> 00:00:49.270 Press the Backspace key on your keyboard to delete text to the left of the cursor, or 00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:55.300 press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete text to the right of the cursor. 00:00:55.300 --> 00:01:00.730 If you want to delete more than one letter at a time or format your text in various ways, 00:01:00.730 --> 00:01:07.410 you'll need to know how to select text.I decided I don't want a few of these words on the slide, 00:01:07.410 --> 00:01:10.270 so I'll just delete them. 00:01:10.270 --> 00:01:16.370 To select the text, place the insertion point next to the text you wish to select. 00:01:16.370 --> 00:01:21.960 Click and hold down the mouse button and while holding it down, drag your mouse over the 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:25.690 text to select it. 00:01:25.690 --> 00:01:29.160 And now release the mouse button. 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:33.760 You can see that a highlighted box has appeared over the words. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.000 This lets us know which text is selected. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:39.190 OK. 00:01:39.190 --> 00:01:46.440 Now I'll just press the Delete key on my keyboard and the selected text is deleted. 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:49.920 Once you've inserted text you'll need to know how to format it. 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.390 If you look in the Font group on the Home tab, you can see the font style and size drop 00:01:55.390 --> 00:01:58.450 down menus. 00:01:58.450 --> 00:02:04.840 When I place my cursor inside my title placeholder, I can see that the default font is Calibri 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:09.700 and the default size for one line of text is 44. 00:02:09.700 --> 00:02:16.230 If I click in the subtitle placeholder, I can see the default font size is 32. 00:02:16.230 --> 00:02:20.830 The subtitle text is also gray by default. 00:02:20.830 --> 00:02:26.370 You can change these settings to make your text look the way you want it to. 00:02:26.370 --> 00:02:28.840 Just select the text you want to modify. 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.230 We'll select our title. 00:02:31.230 --> 00:02:36.460 A hover menu will appear with some basic formatting commands. 00:02:36.460 --> 00:02:41.230 Right now I'll show you how to use these commands from the Ribbon, but when you feel comfortable 00:02:41.230 --> 00:02:47.110 with PowerPoint, you'll find that the hover toolbar will save you time. 00:02:47.110 --> 00:02:52.790 To change the font size and make it bigger or smaller, click the drop-down arrow next 00:02:52.790 --> 00:02:58.950 to the font size box in the Font group on the Home tab. 00:02:58.950 --> 00:03:04.180 As you move your cursor over the various font sizes a live preview of the font size will 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:06.740 appear in the document. 00:03:06.740 --> 00:03:11.670 I love the Live Preview feature because it lets you see how the font size will actually 00:03:11.670 --> 00:03:15.849 look in your presentation. 00:03:15.849 --> 00:03:20.730 Click the font size you want and it will change in the document. 00:03:20.730 --> 00:03:23.110 OK. 00:03:23.110 --> 00:03:27.020 That looks good, but I'd like to try a different font style. 00:03:27.020 --> 00:03:32.480 I'll just select the text and click the drop-down arrow next to the font style box on the Home 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:34.380 tab. 00:03:34.380 --> 00:03:37.569 Just move your cursor over the various font styles. 00:03:37.569 --> 00:03:43.280 Now, just click the font style you want and it will be changed in the presentation. 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:50.780 I think I'll do the same thing with my subtitle and change the font to something different. 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:57.420 Here, I like this one. 00:03:57.420 --> 00:04:01.319 There are many other commands in the Font group that you can use to format your text 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.190 in various ways. 00:04:03.190 --> 00:04:09.489 You can change the font color the same way you did the size and style just click the 00:04:09.489 --> 00:04:17.930 command and select one of the color options Or, select More Colors at the bottom of the 00:04:17.930 --> 00:04:21.720 list to access the Colors dialog box. 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:26.410 Choose the color that you want and click OK. 00:04:26.410 --> 00:04:32.070 There are several other options in this Font group that I want to show you. 00:04:32.070 --> 00:04:38.980 Some of them you may use often, while others will be used less frequently. 00:04:38.980 --> 00:04:47.240 You can format the text using the Bold, Italic, and Underline commands. 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:55.530 To use these commands, just select the text you want to modify and click the command. 00:04:55.530 --> 00:05:01.300 To remove the formatting, you can just click the command again. 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:07.160 We can see how each one works. 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:15.600 I think Underline may work..Yeah that looks good. 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:24.040 The Strikethrough command makes a line through the text and I don't use it very often, but 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:33.050 the Text Shadow command adds a little drop shadow that is nice.The Clear Formatting command 00:05:33.050 --> 00:05:36.350 undoes your recent formatting changes. 00:05:36.350 --> 00:05:42.260 The Change Case commands lets you try different case options without having to retype. 00:05:42.260 --> 00:05:50.570 For example, if I want my title to be uppercase, I can select the command and a list will appear. 00:05:50.570 --> 00:05:54.350 Then select Uppercase from the list. 00:05:54.350 --> 00:05:56.380 I actually think this option will look good!