- MS Powerpoint 2010 Basics
- PPT - Home
- PPT - Getting Started
- PPT - Explore Windows
- PPT - Backstage View
- PPT - Create Presentation
- PPT - Add New Slides
- PPT - Adding Text in Boxes
- PPT - Adding New Text Boxes
- PPT - Deleting Existing Slide
- PPT - Rearranging Slides
- PPT - Adding Slide Notes
- PPT - Managing Sections
- PPT - Working with Outlines
- PPT - Powerpoint Sidebar
- PPT - Presentation Views
- PPT - Setting Backgrounds
- PPT - Slide Orientations
- PPT - Saving Presentation
- PPT - Review Presentation
- PPT - Adding Slide Numbers
- PPT - Adding Header & Footer
- PPT - Running Slide Show
- PPT - Keyboard Shortcuts
- PPT - Get Context Help
- Editing Presentation
- PPT - Copy & Paste Content
- PPT - Find & Replace Content
- PPT - Undo Edited Changes
- PPT - Spelling Check
- PPT - Content Translation
- PPT - Setting Language Type
- PPT - Duplicating Content
- PPT - Special Characters
- PPT - Slides Zoom In-Out
- Formatting Presentation
- PPT - Font Management
- PPT - Setting Text Fonts
- PPT - Text Decoration
- PPT - Change Text Case
- PPT - Change Text Size
- PPT - Change Text Color
- PPT - Text Alignments
- PPT - Indent Paragraphs
- PPT - Set Line Spacing
- Borders and Shades
- PPT - Apply Formatting
- PPT - Using Slide Master
- PPT - Save Design Template
- Working with Multimedia
- PPT - Add Pictures to Slide
- PPT - Editing Added Pictures
- PPT - Format Added Pictures
- PPT - Inserting a Screenshot
- PPT - Adding Shapes to Slide
- PPT - Editing Added Shapes
- PPT - Format Added Shapes
- PPT - Adding Text to Shapes
- PPT - Arrange Shapes/Images
- PPT - Group/Ungroup Objects
- PPT - Adding Audio & Video
- PPT - Add & Format Tables
- PPT - Add & Format Charts
- PPT - Add & Format SmartArt
- PPT - Add & Preview Animations
- PPT - Add & Preview Transitions
- Sharing Presentation
- PPT - Create a PDF File
- PPT - Create a Video File
- PPT - Create Image File
- PPT - Printing Presentation
- PPT - Broadcast Slide Show
- PPT - Packaging Presentation
- PPT - Setting Document Password
- PPT - Email Slide Show
- MS Powerpoint Useful Resources
- PPT - Quick Guide
- PPT - Useful Resources
- PPT - Discussion
Text Decoration in Powerpoint 2010
In this chapter, we will understand how to decorate text in PowerPoint 2010. PowerPoint offers many text decoration features and adds to the aesthetic sense of a presentation. These features can be accessed from the Home ribbon under the Font group.
Given below are the various font decoration features and their functions in PowerPoint.
S.No | Icon & Description |
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1 |
Makes the font face bold |
2 |
Makes the font face italics (slanted font) |
3 |
Underlines the font face |
4 |
Adds shadow to the font face |
5 |
Strikes through the font face |
6 |
Adjusts the character spacing for the font. Predefined settings are very tight, tight, normal, loose and very loose. There is a user defined space setting available too. |
Besides these, there are some other font decoration features that can be accessed from the Font dialog. To open the Font dialog, right-click on the selected text and select Font.
The table below describes the additional text decoration features in the Font dialog.
S.No | Icon & Description |
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1 | Double Strikethrough Adds two strike lines over the text |
2 | Superscript Raises the text above the normal text. For example, the use of "nd" in 2nd |
3 | Subscript Shrinks the below the normal text. For example, the '2' in H2O the chemical formula of water |
4 | Small Caps Changes the entire text to small caps |
5 | All Caps Changes the entire text to capital letters |
6 | Equalize Character height Adjusts the characters so that all are of the same height regardless of the caps setting |