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Computer Concepts - Providing Aesthetics
This feature helps our Powerpoint presentation to look more attractive and interesting.
Enhancing text presentation
Enhancing text can be done by altering font style, font color, font size, and using font case options.
Font Color
Enhancing text can be done using "font color" from "Home" menu.
The text will be displayed in the color you have selected.
Font Style
Enhancing text can be done using "Font Style" from "Home" menu.
You can change font styles of the text by selecting from the list of options in the drop down menu.
Font Size
To increase or decrease the font size, use "font size" option from "Home" menu.
Highlight Text
To enhance the text style, you may select either bold or italic.
You can also highlight your text using the underline option or text shadow.
Shortcut key for underline is "Ctrl + U".
Shortcut key for bold is "Ctrl + B".
Shortcut key for italic is "Ctrl + I".
Font Case
You can highlight the text by changing it to upper, lower or mixed case.
Working with color and line-style
Draw shapes and fill color, follow the below steps −
To draw a shape, right click and select Fill option.
Fill with the desired color.
Background color
Giving background color to PowerPoint image makes the presentation more appealing and beautiful. To apply background, go to Design menu and select Color option.
Line Style
A line is termed as a connector between two points.
In order to insert a line in your presentation, go to Home → Shapes and select the desired line style.
Now you can draw line on the slide pane.
Adding movie and sound
To insert a movie or audio in a slide, go to Insert video or audio options and select audio or video file you want.
The inserted audio or video file will be displayed in your slide.
To play a video or audio file in the presentation, follow the steps below.
Open the slide that contains the video or audio file.
Click play from playback menu.
You can also use playback menu to explore options such as: Play Full Screen, Hide While Not Playing, Loop, etc., as well as adjust volume or mute playback of the file.
Current playback position in the file is indicated on horizontal slider.
Use the vertical slider to adjust the playback volume.
Video files provide zoom-in feature which can be selected from "View" menu.
PowerPoint enables to see the preview of audio or video files.
To preview the file, go to Animations → Preview.
