Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Entering the Text

In This Chapter

• Viewing, selecting, entering, and deleting text

• Choosing fonts, font sizes, and font colors for text

• Entering symbols and special characters

• Using speed techniques for fixing typos and handling capitalization

• Finding and replacing text

• Translating and proofing foreign‐language text

• Using the thesaurus and dictionaries

• Handling smart tags

This chapter is the first of two that look into entering, laying out, and formatting text in a PowerPoint presentation. In this chapter, you focus on getting the text onto the slides.

You'll find advice, tips, and shortcuts for entering text, proofing it for correct spelling, and changing its appearance. You also delve into some PowerPoint features that can help make your presentation more thorough — the Research task pane, the thesaurus, and the various features that have to do with editing foreign‐language text. You'll discover how to find and replace text and correct typos as soon as you make them. Unfortunately, writing mistakes stand out in a PowerPoint presentation because the text is written so large on‐screen. This chapter is devoted in part to helping you keep your text mistakes to a bare minimum.

Entering Text: The Basics

No presentation is complete without a word or two at least, which is why the first thing you see when you add a new slide to a presentation are the words “Click to add text.” As soon as you “click here,” those words of instruction disappear, and you are free to enter ...