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FORMATTING THE TEXT
The text on the slides is formatted in a number of ways in OpenOffice Impress. It can be done by using the tools on the
Formatting toolbar or by using Format menu. Impress allows you to apply different type of text formatting like font
style, font colour, font effect, indentation, and alignment.
Formatting Toolbar
Some of the important tools present on the Formatting toolbar are:
• Font name: Shape of the characters like Arial, Algerian, etc.
• Size: Size of the text and is displayed in points.
• Increase font size: Clicking once will increase by one point. Repeat the clicks to increase to the desired size.
• Decrease font size: Clicking once will decrease by one point. Repeat the clicks to decrease to the desired size.
• Bold: Makes the text bold in appearance.
• Italic: Makes the text italic in appearance.
• Underline: Draws a line underneath the text.
• Strikethrough: Draws a line through the selected text.
• Superscript: Raises the selected text above the baseline.
• Subscript: Lowers the selected text below the baseline.
• Font colour: Select the desired colour from the colour palette displayed to colour the text.
• Highlighting: Select the desired colour from the colour palette displayed to highlight the text.
Let us apply some of the styles in a presentation. Perform the following steps to do so:
Step 1: Create an empty presentation and add blank slide in it.
Step 2: Click on the Text tool from the Drawing toolbar.
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