Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 Beginner: Adding Text

Name: Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 Beginner: Adding Text
Author: Erin Sullivan

Learn to format text in a presentation using tools like bullets and numbering, indents, and spacing

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Hi, my name is Erin Sullivan, and in this module we will be looking at adding text to slides. First thing we're going to look at is some of the basics of text. I'm starting with an existing presentation, and I'm going to click to slide two in this presentation. On this slide I have two placeholders, one for the title, and one that says click to add text. I'm going to click to add my title, and I'm going to title this slide, text basics. The font and the size are determined by the slide layout, but I can change them. So if I didn't want my text at the top of this slide to be black, I could, for example, change the color. So to make any changes to the text, the first thing I need to do is select the text, easiest way to do that is to click and drag over the text. Once the text is selected, you can go up to the home tab in the font group, and these are the changes that you can make to your text from the ribbon. It tells you which font you're currently using, the size. We have the increase and decrease font size, so if you didn't know exactly what size font you wanted, you just knew you wanted it bigger. You can click on the increase font size button until the font is the size you wanted. If you think you wanted a little smaller than that, you can decrease the font size. You can make the font bold, and you'll notice when I've selected bold, the button looks like it is depressed. You can toggle that on and off by clicking on that B. You can also change the color of the font by clicking on the A with the color underline. If you click on the drop down arrow next to it, you'll see a bunch of different colors that you can choose from. I'm going to change the color of this one to a shade of green. You'll notice it says green accent six. That's the color I'm choosing for that. Another thing that you can change when you are working with text is you can change the case of your text. So this is upper and lower case, but if I click on the change case button, I can make it all uppercase. I could just capitalize each word, or I can toggle, which is opposite of capitalizing each word, but making the first letter of every word lower case. So you have sentence case, where capitalizes the first letter in the sentence lower case, upper case, capitalized each word, and toggle case. I'm going to change this to upper case. Thanks for watching. And in the next lesson, we will look at indents and spacing.

Beginner Provider : Erin Sullivan 3 Lessons · 11m in English

Course Description

The focus of this module is to learn all the basics of working with the text on your slides in your presentation. Text is the backbone of a presentation, and in this lesson, you learn to make it stand out with a variety of formatting tools and the use of bullets and numbering.

Text formatting in PowerPoint allows users to apply formats such as bold, italic, and underlining. In addition to those skills, you will look at changing fonts and the size of the text on a slide. This lesson goes on to show the basic features of working with both bulleted and numbered lists in a slide. These tools help the presenter to deliver their information to an audience in a way that is both professional and concise. The text makes up the majority of the presentation, so it is vitally important that you learn the best ways to display text for your presentation to be as effective as possible.

What You'll Learn

Identify the text formatting options available in PowerPoint, including bold, italic, and underlining
Change the font and text size on a slide
Create bulleted lists in PowerPoint
Create numbered lists in PowerPoint
Apply indents and spacing to text on your slides

Key Takeaways

Text is the backbone of a presentation and makes up the majority of its content, so displaying it effectively is vitally important.
PowerPoint's text formatting lets you apply bold, italic, and underlining, as well as change fonts and text size on a slide.
Bulleted and numbered lists help a presenter deliver information to an audience in a way that is both professional and concise.
This module covers the basics of working with text, including text formatting, indents and spacing, and bullets and numbering.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this PowerPoint module cover?

This module covers the basics of working with text on your slides, including text formatting tools such as bold, italic, and underlining, changing fonts and text size, and creating bulleted and numbered lists. Lessons include Text Basics, Indents and Spacing, and Using Bullets and Numbering lists.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will gain skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and PowerPoint animation, learning to format text and create bulleted and numbered lists so you can display text effectively in a presentation.

Who is this course for?

This is a Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 Beginner module focused on adding and formatting text, suitable for those learning the basics of working with text on presentation slides.

Why is learning to work with text important in PowerPoint?

Because text is the backbone of a presentation and makes up the majority of its content, learning the best ways to display text helps make your presentation as effective as possible and lets you deliver information in a professional and concise way.