4. Enter and edit text on slides

Later chapters of this book describe ways to add fancy effects to electronic presentations so that you can really grab the attention of your audience. However, no amount of animation, jazzy colors, and supporting pictures convey your message if the words on the slides are inadequate to the task.

Because of the way elements on a PowerPoint slide float independently, PowerPoint presentations offer simpler options for creatively presenting information than Microsoft Word documents and have become an alternative delivery format for reports.

For most of your presentations, text is the foundation on which you will build everything else. Even if you follow the current trend of building presentations that consist primarily of pictures, you still need to make sure that titles and any other words on your slides do their job, and do it well.

This chapter guides you through procedures related to entering text on slides; moving, copying, and deleting text; formatting characters and paragraphs; applying WordArt text effects; and checking spelling and choosing the best wording.

When you point to a text placeholder or to an outline, the pointer changes to an I-beam. When you click, a blinking cursor appears, indicating where characters will appear when you enter them. As you enter text, it appears both on the slide and on the slide thumbnail (Normal view) or in the outline (Outline view).

PowerPoint provides an AutoFit feature to size text to fit its placeholder. By default, if you enter more text than will fit in a placeholder, PowerPoint reduces the size of the text so that it fits the placeholder. When PowerPoint reduces text to fit a placeholder, the AutoFit Options button appears to the left of the placeholder. You can control the AutoFit feature for each individual placeholder, or you can configure it for all placeholders from the AutoFormat As You Type page of the AutoCorrect dialog box.

To enter text in a placeholder

1. Do either of the following:

• Display the slide in Normal view. Click the placeholder, and then enter the text.

• Display the slide in Outline view, and enter text directly in the Outline pane.

To demote the current text by one level

1. Do either of the following:

• With the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph, press Tab.

• On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Increase List Level button.

To promote the current text by one level

1. Do either of the following:

• With the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph, press Shift+Tab.

• On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Decrease List Level button.

To change AutoFit settings for an individual placeholder

1. Click the AutoFit button that appears to the left of the placeholder to display the AutoFit Options menu.

2. On the AutoFit Options menu, click either AutoFit Text to Placeholder or Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder.

Or

1. In the Format Shape pane, click Text Options.

2. Display the Text Box page of settings.

3. Click Do not Autofit, Shrink text on overflow, or Resize shape to fit text.

To change the default AutoFit settings for all placeholders

1. Click the AutoFit button to display the AutoFit Options menu, and then click Control AutoCorrect Options to display the AutoFormat As You Type tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box.

2. On the AutoFormat As You Type tab, select or clear the options to automatically fit title text and body text to placeholders. Then click OK.

PowerPoint gives you easy access to a huge array of symbols that you can easily insert into any slide. Like graphics, symbols can add visual information or eye-appeal to a slide. However, they are different from graphics in that they are actually characters of a specific font alphabet—usually one of the Wingdings family of fonts.

You can insert some common symbols by entering specific key combinations such as those shown in the following table. The AutoCorrect and AutoFormat functions replace the key combinations with the symbols.

You can insert several hundred other symbols from the Symbol dialog box by first selecting a font that includes symbols, and then selecting and inserting the symbol you want. You can insert accented characters from the Symbol dialog box by selecting them from the characters available for the font you’re working in. Fonts might include Latin, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, and many other extended character sets.

To insert a symbol

1. Position the cursor where you want to insert the symbol.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Symbols group, click the Symbol button to open the Symbol dialog box.

3. In the dialog box, click the Font list, and then click a symbol font such as Symbol, Webdings, or Wingdings to display the characters of that font. Scroll the character pane up and down to display additional characters.

4. Do either of the following to insert a symbol at the cursor:

• Click the symbol you want to insert, and then click Insert.

• Double-click the symbol.

To insert a special character

1. Position the cursor where you want to insert the special character.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Symbols group, click the Symbol button.

3. In the Symbol dialog box, click the Font list, and then click the font you’re working in.

4. In the Subset list, click the subset of characters you want to display.

5. Do either of the following to insert a character at the cursor:

• Click the character you want to insert, and then click Insert.

• Double-click the character.

If you want to add text outside of a placeholder, you can create an independent text box and enter the text there. You can move, size, and format text boxes by using the same techniques that you do with shapes.

The text that you enter into a text box takes on the default formatting associated with text boxes. You can format the text by using all the usual text-formatting methods. If you want to change the default text box formatting for the presentation that you’re working in, you can do so.

To insert a text box

1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click the Text Box button.

2. Do either of the following:

• Click the slide where you want the text box to appear, and then enter the text. The width of the text box expands to fit what you enter on one line.

• On the slide, drag a box where you want the text box to appear, and then enter the text. The box adjusts to the height of one line, but maintains the width you specified. When the text reaches the right boundary of the box, the height of the box expands by one line so that the text can wrap. As you continue entering text, the width of the box stays the same, but the height grows as necessary to accommodate all the text.

To set the default formatting for text boxes

1. Apply the formatting that you want to set as the default.

2. Select the text box.

3. Right-click the border of the selected text box, and then click Set As Default Text Box.

From the Header And Footer dialog box, you can configure the footer to display simple information such as the date and time, the slide number, and custom text.

To add standard footer information to every slide in a presentation

1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click the Header & Footer button to display the Slide tab of the Header And Footer dialog box.

2. Do any of the following:

• In the Include on slide area, select the Date and time check box. Then click Update automatically, and click the format you want to display the date and time in, or click Fixed, and then enter the date and time as you want to display them.

• Select the Slide number check box.

• Select the Footer check box, and then in the text box, enter the text you want to display at the bottom of the page.

• Select the Don’t show on title slide check box.

3. Click Apply to All.

You can select content by using the mouse, using the keyboard, tapping, or combining multiple tools. When you select content, PowerPoint displays the Mini Toolbar, from which you can quickly format the selection or perform other actions, depending on the type of content you select.

You can move or copy selected text on a slide, within a presentation, or between presentations by using these methods:

You can drag a selection from one location to another. This method is easiest to use when you can display the original location and destination on the screen at the same time.

You can cut or copy the text from the original location to the Clipboard and then paste it from the Clipboard into the new location. There are multiple methods for cutting, copying, and pasting text. No matter which method you use, when you cut text, PowerPoint removes it from its original location. When you copy text, PowerPoint leaves the original text intact.

The Clipboard is a temporary storage area that is shared by the Office apps. You can display items that have been cut or copied to the Clipboard in the Clipboard pane.

You can cut and copy content to the Clipboard and paste the most recent item from the Clipboard without displaying the Clipboard pane. If you want to work with items other than the most recent, you can display the Clipboard pane and then do so.

If you make a change and then realize that you made a mistake, you can easily reverse, or undo, one or more recent changes. You can redo changes that you’ve undone, or repeat your most recent action elsewhere in the presentation.

In addition to moving and copying text, you can also simply delete it. The easiest way to do this is by using the Delete key or the Backspace key. However, when you delete text by using one of these keys, the text is not saved to the Clipboard and you can’t paste it elsewhere.

To select text

1. Do any of the following:

• To select adjacent words, lines, or paragraphs, drag through the text.

• Position the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to select, and then do any of the following:

• To select one character at a time, hold down the Shift key and then press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key.

• To select one word at a time, hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys and then press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key.

• To select one line at a time, hold down the Shift key and then press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key.

• To select any amount of adjacent content, hold down the Shift key and then click at the end of the content that you want to select.

• To select a word, double-click anywhere in the word. PowerPoint selects the word and the space immediately after the word, but not any punctuation after the word.

• To select a bulleted list item, click the bullet either on the slide or in the Outline pane.

• To select all the text on a slide, click its slide icon in the Outline pane.

• To select all the objects on a slide, click in any placeholder, and then click its border, which becomes solid instead of dashed. Click the Select button, and then click Select All.

• To select a paragraph, triple-click anywhere in the paragraph.

• To select non-adjacent words, lines, or paragraphs, select the first text segment and then hold down the Ctrl key while selecting the next text segment.

• To select all the content in the current placeholder, do either of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click the Select button, and then click Select All.

• Press Ctrl+A.

To release a selection

1. Click anywhere in the window other than the selection area.

To cut text to the Clipboard

1. Select the text, and then do any of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Cut button.

• Right-click the selection, and then click Cut.

• Press Ctrl+X.

To copy text to the Clipboard

1. Select the text, and then do any of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Copy button.

• Right-click the selection, and then click Copy.

• Press Ctrl+C.

To paste the most recent item from the Clipboard

1. Position the cursor where you want to insert the text, and then do either of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Paste button.

• Press Ctrl+V.

Or

1. Right-click where you want to insert the text, and then in the Paste Options section of the menu, click a paste option.

To move text

1. Do either of the following:

• Cut the text from the original location, and then paste it into the new location.

• Drag the text from the original location to the new location.

To copy text from one location to another

1. Do either of the following:

• Copy the text from the original location, and then paste it into the new location.

• Hold down the Ctrl key and drag the text from the original location to the new location.

To display the Clipboard pane

1. On the Home tab, click the Clipboard dialog box launcher.

To manage cut and copied items in the Clipboard pane

1. Do any of the following:

• To paste an individual item at the cursor, click the item, or point to the item, click the arrow that appears, and then click Paste.

• To paste all the items stored on the Clipboard at the same location, click the Paste All button at the top of the Clipboard pane.

• To remove an item from the Clipboard, point to the item in the Clipboard pane, click the arrow that appears, and then click Delete.

• To remove all items from the Clipboard, click the Clear All button at the top of the Clipboard pane.

To control the behavior of the Clipboard pane

1. At the bottom of the pane, click Options, and then click the display option you want.

To undo your last editing action

1. Do either of the following:

• On the Quick Access Toolbar, click the Undo button.

• Press Ctrl+Z.

To undo two or more actions

1. On the Quick Access Toolbar, in the Undo list, click the first action you want to undo. Word reverts that action and all those that follow.

To restore your last editing action

1. Do either of the following:

• On the Quick Access Toolbar, click the Redo button.

• Press Ctrl+Y.

To delete only one or a few characters

1. Position the cursor immediately to the left of the text you want to delete.

2. Press the Delete key once for each character you want to delete.

Or

1. Position the cursor immediately to the right of the text you want to delete.

2. Press the Backspace key once for each character you want to delete.

To delete any amount of text

1. Select the text you want to delete.

2. Press the Delete key or the Backspace key.

In addition to changing the look of paragraphs, you can manipulate the look of individual words by manually applying settings that are collectively called character formatting. After selecting the characters you want to format, you make changes by using the commands in the Font group on the Home tab.

To make it quick and easy to apply the most common paragraph and character formatting, PowerPoint displays the Mini Toolbar when you select text. This toolbar contains buttons from the Font and Paragraph groups on the Home tab, but they’re all in one place adjacent to the selection. If you don’t want to apply any of the Mini Toolbar formats, simply ignore it and use the ribbon to make the changes you want.

After you format the text on a slide, you might find that you want to adjust the way lines break to achieve a more balanced look. This is often the case with slide titles, but bullet points and regular text can sometimes benefit from a few manually inserted line breaks.

To apply character attributes to text

1. Select the text you want to style, and then do any of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Bold, Italic, Underline, Text Shadow, or Strikethrough button.

• On the Mini Toolbar, click any of the equivalent formatting buttons.

• Use any of the following keyboard shortcuts:

• To style selected text as bold, press Ctrl+B.

• To style selected text as italic, press Ctrl+I.

• To style selected text as underline, press Ctrl+U.

To change text casing

1. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Change Case button, and then click the case you want.

To increase or decrease the space between characters

1. In the Font group, click the Character Spacing button, and then do either of the following:

• Click the spacing option you want.

• Click More Spacing to display the Character Spacing page of the Font dialog box, and then specify the space you want between characters.

To change the font color of existing text

1. Select the text you want to format.

2. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Font Color arrow.

3. In the Standard Colors palette, click any color swatch.

To increase the font size of existing text

1. Select the text you want to format.

2. Do either of the following:

• In the Font group, click the Increase Font Size button.

• Press Ctrl+Shift+>.

To clear formatting from text

1. Select the text you want to format.

2. Do either of the following:

• In the Font group, click the Clear All Formatting button.

• Press Ctrl+Spacebar.

To convert bulleted list items to regular text paragraphs

1. Select the bulleted list items that you want to convert.

2. Do either of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the active Bullets button.

• Click the Bullets arrow, and then click None in the gallery.

To convert a bulleted list to a numbered list or a numbered list to a bulleted list

1. Select the bulleted or numbered list items, and then click the Bullets or Numbering button, respectively.

To change the style of bullets or numbering

1. Click the Bullets or Numbering arrow, and then click the style you want in the gallery.

To change the alignment of text

1. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click any of the following alignment buttons:

• To align text along the placeholder’s left edge, click the Align Left button.

• To align text in the middle of the placeholder, click the Center button.

• To align text against the placeholder’s right edge, click the Align Right button.

• To align text against both the left and right edges, adding space between words to fill the line, click the Justify button. (This option works only if the paragraph contains more than one line.)

• To align text vertically at the top, in the middle, or at the bottom of the placeholder, click the Align Text button.

Or

1. Use any of the following keyboard shortcuts:

• To left-align text, press Ctrl+L.

• To center text, press Ctrl+E.

• To right-align text, press Ctrl+R.

To change line spacing

1. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Line Spacing button, and then click the spacing you want.

To format a paragraph by using settings in the Paragraph dialog box

2. On the Home tab, click the Paragraph dialog box launcher to open the Paragraph dialog box.

3. Do any of the following:

• In the General area, change the Alignment setting to Left, Centered or Right.

• In the Spacing area, enter a number in the Before or After box.

• In the Spacing area, change the Line Spacing setting.

To insert a line break in a paragraph

1. Press Shift+Enter.

In addition to applying WordArt to existing text, you can create separate WordArt text objects. These are simply text boxes that contain only the WordArt-formatted text. You can modify and format them just as you do any other text boxes.

You can leave the WordArt effects as-is or customize any of them by modifying the settings in the WordArt Styles group on the Format tool tab. As with other color effects, WordArt fill, outline, and glow colors are based on the presentation color scheme. If you change the theme or color scheme, these will automatically update to match other color scheme–controlled elements.

The most interesting feature of WordArt formatting is the text effects that you can apply. (You can actually apply these text effects to any text, not only to text that has a WordArt format applied.) The text effects include Shadow, Reflection, Glow, Bevel, 3-D Rotation, and Transform. Some of these are familiar concepts and others are unique to WordArt—in particular, transformation, which is reminiscent of the original WordArt options.

In each of the text effect categories, you can choose a preformatted option or create a unique combination. If you’re working with an independent WordArt object, you can modify the object size, shape, and sometimes structure by moving the size handles on the object frame.

To apply a WordArt effect to existing text

1. Select the text that you want to format.

2. On the Format tool tab, in the WordArt Styles group, click the More button to display the WordArt Styles gallery.

3. In the gallery, click the WordArt effect that you want to apply.

To insert a WordArt text object

1. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click the WordArt button.

2. In the WordArt gallery, click the WordArt style that you want, to insert a text box that contains placeholder text in the middle of the slide.

3. Replace the placeholder text with your own text.

To modify WordArt formatting

1. Select the WordArt object or formatted text.

2. On the Format tool tab, in the WordArt Styles group, do any of the following:

• In the WordArt Styles gallery, click a different WordArt style.

• On the Text Fill menu, select a different color or a picture, gradient, or texture fill for the lettering.

• On the Text Outline menu, select a different color, weight, or pattern for the letter outlines.

• On the Text Effects menu, modify the shadow, reflection, glow, bevel, rotation, or transformation of the text.

To change the size and angles of a WordArt object

1. Click the WordArt object to activate its handles.

2. Do any of the following:

• Drag the side or corner handles (hollow circles) to change the size or aspect ratio of the object.

• Drag the angle handles (yellow circles) to change the angles or curves of the text within the object.

• Drag the rotate handle (circling arrow) to rotate the object on the slide.

3. Click away from the object to display the effect of your changes.

By default, the PowerPoint spelling checker checks the spelling of the entire presentation—all slides, outlines, notes pages, and handout pages—against its built-in dictionary. To draw attention to words that are not in its dictionary and that might be misspelled, PowerPoint underlines them with a red wavy underline. You can right-click a word with a red wavy underline to display a menu with a list of possible spellings and actions. You can choose the correct spelling from the menu, tell PowerPoint to ignore the word, or add the word to a supplementary dictionary (explained later in this topic).

Instead of dealing with potential misspellings while you’re creating a presentation, you can check the entire presentation in one session by clicking the Spelling button in the Proofing group on the Review tab. PowerPoint then works its way through the presentation. If it encounters a word that is not in its dictionary, it displays the word in the Spelling pane. After you indicate how PowerPoint should deal with the word—by ignoring it, ignoring all instances of it, adding it to the supplementary dictionary, changing it to the suggested spelling, or changing all instances of it to the suggested spelling—it moves on and displays the next word that is not in its dictionary, and so on.

If PowerPoint flags a word or phrase that is written in another language, you can mark it as such. Then, PowerPoint will cease to flag that word or phrase as a misspelling.

You cannot make changes to the main dictionary in PowerPoint, but you can add correctly spelled words that are flagged as misspellings to the PowerPoint supplementary dictionary (called CUSTOM.DIC). You can also create and use custom dictionaries and use dictionaries from other Microsoft apps.

PowerPoint can check your spelling, but it can’t alert you if you’re not using the best wording. Language is often contextual. The language you use in a presentation to members of a club is different from the language you use in a business presentation. To make sure you’re using words that best convey your meaning in any given context, you can use the Thesaurus feature to look up alternative words, called synonyms, for a selected word.

To correct spelling errors on a slide

1. Right-click any word that has a wavy red underline. PowerPoint displays suggested spelling corrections at the top of the shortcut menu.

2. Click any of the suggested corrections to replace the word.

To use the Thesaurus to find a synonym

1. Select or click in a word.

2. Do either of the following to open the Thesaurus pane and display synonyms for the selected word:

• On the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click the Thesaurus button.

• Press Shift+F7.

3. Point to the word you want to use, click the arrow that appears, and then click Insert.

To mark a word as written in a specific language

1. Select a word that has a wavy red underline.

2. On the Review tab, in the Language group, click the Language button, and then click Set Proofing Language.

3. In the Language dialog box, click the language. Then click OK.

To check the spelling of an entire presentation

1. If you want to begin checking from the beginning of the presentation, press Ctrl+Home to move there.

2. To begin the review, do either of the following:

• On the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click the Spelling & Grammar button.

• Press F7.

The Spelling pane opens and displays the first possible error. The corresponding text on the slide is highlighted.

3. In the Spelling pane, review the explanation and the suggested responses, and then do any of the following:

• If the selection is identified as a possible spelling error, do any of the following:

• Click Ignore to continue the review without changing the highlighted word or Ignore All to continue and to ignore other instances of the word in the current presentation.

• Click Add to add the word to the custom dictionary on your computer.

• Select the correct spelling of the word in the suggestions list, and then click Change to change only this instance of the word or Change All to change all instances of this word in the document.

• If the selection is identified as a duplicated word, do either of the following:

• Click Ignore to continue the review without making a change.

• Click Delete to delete the highlighted instance of the duplicated word.

• If the selection is identified as a possible grammatical or formatting error, do either of the following:

• Click Ignore to continue the review without making a change.

• Select the correct usage in the suggestions list, and click Change to change the selection to the new usage.

When you click a button to fix or ignore the issue, the spelling and grammar checker moves to the next word that Word does not recognize.

4. After the last selection has been addressed, Word displays a message indicating that it has finished checking the spelling and grammar of the document. Click OK to close the message box.

To manage the custom dictionary

1. From the Backstage view, open the PowerPoint Options dialog box.

2. Display the Proofing page. In the When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs section of the Proofing page, click the Custom Dictionaries button.

3. The Custom Dictionaries dialog box displays the dictionaries that Office apps consult. Select the dictionary that has (default) after the name. Then click the Edit Word List button.

4. In the dialog box for the selected dictionary, do any of the following:

• To review the content of the dictionary, scroll the Dictionary pane.

• To remove a word from the dictionary, click it in the Dictionary pane, and then click Delete.

• To clear the entire dictionary, click Delete All.

• To add a word to the dictionary, enter it in the Word(s) box and then click OK.

Enter text on slides

Move, copy, and delete text

Format characters and paragraphs

Apply WordArt text effects

Check spelling and choose the best wording

1. Display slide 1 in Normal view, and then in the placeholder, enter Wide World Importers as the presentation title.

2. Insert a registered trademark (®) symbol after Wide World Importers.

3. In the subtitle placeholder, enter Where we are, where we are going, how we are going to get there…and how long it is going to take.

4. If it’s not already configured to do so, change the AutoFit settings so text does not automatically fit in the placeholder.

5. Display slide 2 in Outline view.

6. In the Outline pane, next to the slide 2 location, enter Expanding to the UK.

7. After UK, enter (£)* (pound symbol surrounded by parentheses followed by an asterisk).

8. Press Enter, and then press Tab to create a first-level bullet.

9. Enter Preparing for a buying trip, and then press Enter.

10. Enter the following three bullet points, pressing Enter after each:

• Traveling internationally

• Meeting the client

• Know your needs

11. Demote the Know your needs bullet to a second-level bullet point.

12. Insert a text box in the lower-right corner of the slide, and then enter *Short-term strategy.

13. Reduce the size of the text in the text box to 12 point and set that size as the default for all text boxes.

14. Add a slide footer that includes the text Wide World Importers and set it so that it does not appear on the title slide.

15. Close the presentation.

1. Display slide 2 in Normal view and, in the first bullet, delete the word buying.

2. Switch to Outline view.

3. In the Outline pane, in the second bullet point on slide 6, replace the word good with the word lasting. Notice that the text is replaced in both the Outline pane and the Slide pane.

4. On slide 5, move the entire Know the culture bullet point by cutting it from its current location and pasting it to the left of Know your customers on slide 3.

5. Switch to Normal view, and then on slide 3, in the Slide pane, move the Know your needs bullet point and its subpoints as a unit by dragging it to the left of Read the Buyer Manuals.

6. Undo the action in step 5.

7. Restore that editing action.

8. Close the presentation.

1. On slide 1, select Flowers in nature and arrangements, and use the Mini Toolbar to make the words italic.

2. Display slide 2, select the entire bulleted list and then increase the font size until the setting in the Font Size box is 32.

3. Clear the formatting to return the font size to 24 (the original size).

4. Change the font color to yellow.

5. Convert the bullet points to regular text paragraphs.

6. Select all the paragraphs, and then open the Paragraph dialog box.

7. Change the Alignment setting to Centered.

8. In the Spacing area, enter 0 in the Before box, and then increase the After setting to 24 pt.

9. Change the Line Spacing setting to Exactly, change the At setting to 30 pt, and then click OK.

10. On slide 7, insert a line break to the left of the word of.

11. Close the presentation.

1. On slide 1, select the Litware, Inc. text.

2. Display the WordArt Styles gallery, and then click Fill – White, Background 2, Inner Shadow.

3. Display slide 5 and insert a WordArt text object with Gradient Fill – Gray style.

4. Replace the placeholder text with Objective: Author Satisfaction.

5. Select the WordArt object and on the Text Fill menu, click the Purple Accent 1 swatch.

6. On the Text Outline menu, click the Black, Text 1 swatch.

7. On the Text Effects menu, on the Shadow submenu, click Perspective Diagonal Upper Right.

8. Resize the WordArt object to make it smaller.

9. Rotate the WordArt object so that it runs diagonally across the slide, from the upper-left to the lower-right.

10. Close the presentation.

1. On slide 3, replace infermation, which PowerPoint has flagged as a possible error with a red wavy underline, with information.

2. On slide 6, identify the phrase Médecins Sans Frontières as a French (France) phrase.

3. Display slide 1.

4. Check the spelling of the entire presentation, and then do the following:

a. Change the word Persue to Pursue

The spelling checker then stops on the word CSCom, suggesting Como as the correct spelling. For purposes of this task, assume that this is a common abbreviation for Community Service Committee.

b. Add the term CSCom to the CUSTOM.DIC dictionary.

c. Delete the duplicated word to.

d. Change the word employes to employees.

e. Change the word succesful to successful.

5. This presentation still has spelling problems—words that are spelled correctly but that aren’t correct in context. Proof the slides and correct these errors manually.

6. Remove CSCom from the supplementary dictionary.

7. On slide 1, replace the word executing with the word completing by using the Thesaurus pane.

8. Close the presentation.