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14 Work with Slide Text
In this chapter, you will learn how to
✔ Enter text in placeholders.
✔ Add text boxes.
✔ Edit text.
✔ Correct and size text while typing.
✔ Check spelling and choose the best words.
✔ Find and replace text and fonts.In later chapters of this book, we show you ways to add fancy effects to electronic pre-
sentations so that you can really grab the attention of your audience. But no amount of
animation, jazzy colors, and supporting pictures will convey your message if the words
on the slides are inadequate to the task.
For most of your presentations, text is the foundation on which you build everything
else. Even if you follow the current trend of building presentations that consist primarily
of pictures, you still need to make sure that titles and any other words on your slides
do their job, and do it well. So this chapter shows you various ways to work with text to
ensure that the words are accurate, consistent, and appropriately formatted.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to enter and edit text on slides, on the Outline tab,
and in text boxes. You’ll see how the AutoCorrect feature helps you avoid typographical
errors and the AutoFit feature makes the words you type fit in the available space. Then
you’ll see how the spell-checking feature can help you correct misspellings. Finally, you’ll
learn how to replace one word with another throughout a presentation by using the Find
And Replace feature, which you also use to ensure the consistent use of fonts.Practice Files Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy
the book’s practice files to your computer. The practice files you’ll use to complete the
exercises in this chapter are in the Chapter14 practice file folder. A complete list of
practice files is provided in “Using the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book. Contents14 Work with Slide Text 389
Entering Text in Placeholders............................................. 390
Adding Text Boxes....................................................... 393
Changing the Default Font for Text Boxes.............................. 400
Editing Text............................................................. 400
About the Clipboard................................................ 405
Correcting and Sizing Text While Typing.................................... 406
Checking Spelling and Choosing the Best Words............................ 412
Researching Information and Translating Text.......................... 417
Finding and Replacing Text and Fonts...................................... 418
Key Points.............................................................. 421