As you move through your presentation, some of the text may not look the way you would like. The font style, font size, color, or even alignment may need to be altered.
When working with text, you will need to select the text you want to modify. Text can be selected in different ways.
You can:
Let's take some time to practice selecting and formatting text.
If you are beginning this course at this point, you will need to copy the presentation to your Google Drive.
NOTE: If you have been working through the course, your file should be up to date and you will not need to copy the practice presentation. You can move ahead to Modifying the font size.
Right-click Copy practice presentation, Click Open link in new window
The file begins to open in a new window of the web browser. Before the presentation will open and can be edited, we need to make a copy of it.
Move to the new browser window.
Click 
A copy of the file is now open and, by default, is saved in your Google Drive. The filename now has the words "Copy of" at the beginning.
We will begin by formatting the text on the slide titled "Presentation Tips." The text in the bulleted lists is a bit too small and may be difficult for our audience to read.
Click the slide titled "Presentation Tips"
Press & Drag from "Do" to "colors"
Click 
, Click 18
Press & Drag from "Do not" to "animations"
Click , Click 18
There are several reasons you may want to change the color of the text in your presentation. Modifying the color of text may help it stand out more and bring attention to an important idea. Other times you may need to change the color of the text depending on the color of the background.
Occasionally it may be necessary to adjust the color to follow accessibility guidelines. For example, you will want to make sure there is a high color contrast between your text and background or graphics. This means you should aim for a dark background with light text or a light background with dark text. There are several color contrast tools online that can aid in selecting good colors. It is also important to remember not to use color as emphasis. Don't use red to convey that something is important. A good way to check for this is to put your presentation in greyscale and see if it still makes sense.
Press & Drag from "Do not" to "animations"
Click 
Click the red circle under the Theme heading
Click in a blank area of the slide
The slide should look like this:
Font choice is very important when creating a presentation. When text is copied from another source, it may use the font from the original source when it is pasted and not the font used in your presentation. We have this issue on one of our slides. Let's fix it now.
Click the slide titled "Google Slides - The Basics"
Notice that the first part of the text is in a different font. Let's change this so that all of the text matches. Before we can change the font, we need to select it.
Press & Drag from "Googles slides is a..." to "...your Google account."
Our selection looks like this:
Any changes we make at this point will appear in the selected text.
Click 
, Click Roboto
The selected text has changed to the new font, Roboto. It now matches the rest of the text on the slide.
Let's make some adjustments to the text on this same slide. We will begin by making the title text bold.
Press & Drag the title text
Click 
The title text is now formatted in bold.
There are other ways to alter text aside from size and color. Text can also be aligned in different ways depending on the look and feel of your presentation.
Currently the text on the slide is centered. It may look cleaner and be easier to read if this is changed to left aligned. Doing this will start each line of text at the left edge of the text box.
Let's go ahead and modify the alignment of the text on this slide.
Press & Drag from "Google Slides is a free program..." to "Link to Google Slides"
Click 
, Click 
Click on a blank area of the slide
The slide now looks like this:
