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- Adding Title and Body Text
- Entering Bulleted Text
- Entering Special Characters
- Adding Text Boxes
- Layering Text
- Formatting Text
- Modifying Text Color
- Removing Font Formatting
- Changing Text Alignment
- Creating Text Columns
- Using the Mini Toolbar
- Adjusting Text Spacing
- Copying and Pasting Font Formatting
- Setting Bullet and Number Styles
- Setting Text and Bullet Tabs
- Finding and Replacing Text
- Checking Your Spelling
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Finding and Replacing Text
PowerPoint allows you to find and replace text on your slides, which is handy when Marketing tells you that they've decided to rename the SuperWidget to UltraWidget half an hour before your presentation.
To find text:
Choose Home > Editing > Find, or press
The Find dialog appears (Figure 4.43).
Figure 4.43 The Find dialog is also useful for replacing text; it turns into the Replace dialog if you click the Replace button.
- In the Find what field, enter the text you wish to find.
Click Find Next, or press Enter.
PowerPoint finds the text.
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To find and replace text:
Choose Home> Editing > Replace, or press
The Replace dialog appears (Figure 4.44).
Figure 4.44 You'll use the Replace window to find and change text in your presentation.
- In the Find what field, enter the text you wish to find.
- In the Replace with field, enter the text you want to replace the found text.
- (Optional) Choose either (or both) Match case and Find whole words only.
- Click Replace to replace the first instance of the found text, or Replace All to replace the text throughout your presentation.
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- If you make a mistake when replacing text, you can use Undo to fix the mistake. Just press
or click the Undo button in the Quick Access Toolbar.