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Arial Unicode, or Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of Arial. So what does “extended” mean? In this case, Arial is a single-byte font that has a simple subset of standard characters. Arial Unicode, on the other hand is a Unicode font that includes everything Arial contains, but it also adds enough glyphs to encompass almost all language characters, thus covering a large subset of Unicode 2.1.
Explore Arial Unicode, the double-byte, supercharged version of Arial.
Fonts are more than just pretty characters, and your choice of fonts can have a profound effect on how readable your text is to the audience. We have already explored how you can format font styles to make your text bold, italicized, underlined, etc. Beyond these basic offerings, PowerPoint 2016’s Font dialog box offers some advanced format options for selected text. You can still change the font type, set the font size, color, and other font attributes in this dialog box, and you can also do more. In this tutorial, we’ll explore font format options within the Font dialog box in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
Explore options within the Font dialog box in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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We first bring you an interview with Mike Parkinson, who talks about Build-a-Graphic, a collection of graphics that “helps every PowerPoint user—non-designers and designers alike—make better content and graphics while saving money and time.” We also feature Ken Hilliard, who talks about his PowerPlayer device to display presentations that “includes hardware, software and a cloud-based content management service (CMS). All a customer needs are a TV display with HDMI and Wifi Internet at the TV point’s location.”
For all presenters, we look at how you can create PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Excel, and in Word Online. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore how to Convert Text to Shapes by Fragmenting and Customize Quick Access Toolbar. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last week.
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Type text within PowerPoint, and the font type and size are decided for you, based on the Theme applied to your presentation. For example, if you use PowerPoint’s default Office Theme, then all your typed text will sport the Calibri typeface. You can quickly change the Theme Fonts set altogether for your presentation, and all text instances will switch to the default typefaces of the new Theme or Theme Fonts set. However, there may be times when you want to override these defaults and choose a typeface that is different, or even a different font size. Let us now explore how you can choose different font types and change the font size of the selected text on the slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
Explore how you can change font types and sizes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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The Quick Access Toolbar or QAT is the only toolbar available in PowerPoint. This toolbar can be customized and can contain your most-used commands so that they are accessible to you with just a single click. Follow these steps to customize the QAT in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac by adding your frequently used commands.
Learn how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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