400 Chapter 14 Work with Slide Text
Changing the Default Font for Text Boxes
When you create a text box, PowerPoint applies default settings such as the font,
size, and style—regular, bold, and italic—as well as other effects, such as underline,
small capitals, and embossing. To save yourself some formatting steps, you can
change the default settings for the presentation you are working on.To save the current settings as the new default:- In a new, blank presentation, create a text box and enter some text in it.
- Select the text, and then on the Home tab, click the Font dialog box launcher.
- Select the font, font style, size, color, underline style, and effects you want to
apply to all the text boxes you create from now on in this presentation, and
then click OK.
You can also add other effects, such as a fill color, outline formatting, or a
special effect.
See Also For information about these other effects, refer to Microsoft PowerPoint
2010 Step by Step, by Joyce Cox and Joan Lambert (Microsoft Press, 2010). - Select the text box itself, right-click its border, and then click Set As Default
Text Box. - Create another text box on the same slide, and then enter text in it.
The text appears with the new default settings.
Editing Text.
After you enter text in either a placeholder or a text box, you can change it at any time.
You can insert new text by clicking where you want to make the insertion and simply
typing. However, before you can change existing text, you have to select it by using the
following techniques:
● Word Double-click the word to select the word and the space following it.
Punctuation following the word is not selected.
● Adjacent words, lines, or paragraphs Drag through them. Alternatively, position
the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to select, hold down the Shift key,
and either press an arrow key to select characters one at a time or click at the end
of the text you want to select.