To create slides, bullet points, and subpoints on the Outline tab
Click to the right of a slide title, and then press F to create a new slide.
With the insertion point in a slide title, press D to convert it to a bullet point.
With the insertion point in a bullet point, press G+D to convert it to a slide.
With the insertion point in the bullet point, press D to convert it to a subpoint.
To delete and replace a word
To move text
Select the text, and on the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Cut button.
Click where you want to insert the text, and then click the Paste button.
To undo or redo editing actions
To select an entire placeholder
To create a text box
To rotate a text box
To move a text box
To size a text box
To add a solid border to a text box
Right-click the border of the text box, and then click Format Shape.
In the Format Shape dialog box, click Line Color, click the line option you want, select appropriate options, and then click Close.
To change the default settings of a text box
Format the text and the text box the way you want all the text boxes you create from now on in this presentation to be.
Right-click the border of the text box, and then click Set as Default Text Box.
To add an AutoCorrect entry
Click the Microsoft Office Button, click PowerPoint Options, click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options.
In the Replace box above the table in the dialog box, type a word you commonly misspell, and then press .
In the With box, type the correct spelling of the word, click Add, and then click OK twice to close the dialog box and PowerPoint Options window.
To correct a word flagged as a misspelling
To mark a non-English word
With the insertion point in the word, on the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click the Language button.
In the Language dialog box, click the language, and then click OK.
To check the spelling of an entire presentation
With the first slide displayed, on the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click the Spelling button.
If the Spelling dialog box appears, click the appropriate buttons to correct the errors PowerPoint finds or to add words to the custom dictionary or AutoCorrect list.
Click OK when PowerPoint reaches the end of the spelling check, and then click Close.
To find a synonym for a word
Select a word (but not the following space). Then on the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click the Thesaurus button.
Point to the word you want to substitute for the selection, click the arrow that appears, and then click Insert.
To find and replace a word
On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click the Replace button.
In the Find what box, type the word you want to replace, and in the Replace with box, type the replacement text.
If necessary, select the Match case or Find whole words only check box.
Click Find Next, and then click Replace or Replace All.
To find and replace a font
On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click the Replace arrow, and then in the list, click Replace Fonts.
In the Replace list, click the font you want to replace, and then in the With list, click the replacement font.
Click Replace.
To hide or display an object on a slide
On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click the Select button, and then click Selection Pane.
Under Shapes on this Slide in the task pane, click the box to the right of the object to hide or display it.
To change the font size
To change the size of a placeholder
To size a placeholder to fit its text
Right-click the placeholder’s border, and then click Format Shape.
Click Text Box, select the Resize shape to fit text option, and then click Close.
To change text alignment
To adjust line spacing
Click the paragraph, and then click the Paragraph Dialog Box Launcher.
Under Spacing, in the Paragraph dialog box, adjust the Line Spacing setting, and then click OK.
To change the text case
To apply bold or italic formatting to text
To change the color of text