Microsoft PowerPoint 2008
The Formatting Palette
The Formatting Palette offers an easy way to format your text and objects with a single click. Located in your workspace on the right side of the screen, it provides easy access to formatting tools when designing slides.
Accessing the Formatting Palette
The Formatting Palette should automatically appear on the right side of your screen when you open PowerPoint. If it is not visible, you can access it easily. It is helpful to remember that the available sections vary depending on which element is selected on a slide.
Viewing the Formatting Palette
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From the Standard toolbar, click TOOLBOX
The Toolbox appears. -
From the Toolbox toolbar, click FORMATTING PALETTE
The Formatting Palette appears in the Toolbox.
NOTE: The available sections vary depending on which element is selected on a slide.
Expanding the Formatting Palette
To optimize your workspace, the Formatting Palette consists of collapsible sections. Each section is indicated by a colored bar with the section title and a triangular arrow. These sections expand to reveal common functions of the individual sections.
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Click the heading of the section you want to expand
The section expands to reveal related formatting options.
NOTE: The triangular arrow points to the right when the section is collapsed or points down when the section is expanded.
Formatting Palette Options
The Formatting Palette can consist of a wide variety of sections, including font, bullets and numbering, alignment and spacing, animation, hyperlink, and presentation. Each section contains different formatting options for the element you are working with.
Formatting Palette Options: Font Options
The Font section of the Formatting Palette allows you to prescribe font type, font size, font color, text style, and to apply subscript or superscript text.
Palette Button |
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Changes font |
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Changes font size |
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Changes font color |
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Applies boldface, italics, underline, and strikethrough |
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Creates superscript or subscript text |
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Allows user to have small upper case letters or switch between cases |
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Increases or decreases font size |
Formatting Palette Options: Bullets and Numbering Options
The Bullets and Numbering section of the Formatting Palette allows you to format the style, color and size of bulleted and numbered lists, as well as increase and decrease their indent.
Palette Button |
Function |
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Creates numbered list |
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Creates bulleted list |
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Increases or decreases the indent |
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Determines style for the numbers or bullets |
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Determines the color of numbers or bullets |
Formatting Palette Options: Alignment and Spacing Options
The Alignment and Spacing section of the Formatting Palette allows you to format the horizontal and vertical alignment, and paragraph spacing.
Palette Button |
Function |
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Designates horizontal alignment for text: left, center, right, justified, distributed |
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Designates vertical alignment for text: top, center, bottom |
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Orients text: horizontally, rotates text 90°, rotates text 270°, stacked |
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Increases or decreases paragraph spacing |
