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To paint formats: Mouse
1. Select the placeholder or the text that contains the formatting that you want to use.
2. Click the FORMAT PAINTER button from the HOME ribbon. Your mouse pointer will change to display a
paintbrush next to the selection pointer 3. Select the placeholder you want to apply the formats to by clicking on it. As soon as you release the mouse,
the format will appear.
• he format painter will paint the formats from your chosen placeholder and will then turn of. You can keep the format painter turned on to enable the painting of multiple placeholders by double clicking on the
format painter instead of single clicking as above. To turn the format painter of when inished, press Esc or
click once on the Format Painter button.
Changing Case
If the case of the letters is wrong, rather than deleting and re-typing in the correct case, you can use the following formatting option.
To change text case:
Mouse
1. Select your text.
2. Select the drop down arrow next to the CHANGE CASE button in the FONT group on the HOME ribbon
3. Choose desired case.
Once your text is selected you can also use SHIFT + F3 to toggle between Upper, Lower and Sentence case.
Formatting The Placeholder
he placeholder itself can be formatted further by using the options on the FORMAT ribbon in the SHAPE STYLES group.
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To format a placeholder
Mouse
1. Use the pre-set styles by clicking on the drop down arrow to the bottom right of the viewable pre-set styles and make a selection from the displayed options
Or
2. Use the drop down arrows to right of the three buttons in the shape styles group to deine your own choices for the:
• Shape ill. • Shape outline.
• Shape efects.
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Or
1. Use the DIALOG BOX LAUNCHER to bring up a similar dialog as we did for the text efects but THESE
options are speciically for the placeholder shape and as you can see from the title the dialog is called
FORMAT SHAPE.
2. When you have selected the desired options form the various categories displayed which are immediately
applied click on CLOSE.
3. Your placeholder may appear as below.
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Formatting Slide Backgrounds
he background colour of all new slides is, by default, white. It is possible to apply a diferent colour, graded ill colour, pattern, texture or picture, which will override the default setting. he change applies to all slides that follow the design
template of the currently selected slide
To change the background formatting
1. On the DESIGN ribbon, click on the BACKGROUND STYLES button from the BACKGROUND group.
