Character spacing is a small feature which lets you easily adjust space between characters in a word. To adjust character spacing select the header or text box in slide, and head over to Home tab, from Font group, under character spacing group, select a desired option.
When using really large font sizes in PowerPoint the space between some characters might not come out perfect. The area between characters is know as kerning and you can read more about its importance. The bottom line is, if the kerning is off the text will look funny. So here we will look at one way you can use to adjust the kerning in a large typeset text in PowerPoint. You can see that the space between the first 1 and the 0 is much bigger than between the other characters. This is very noticeable and it feels like the 1 doesn’t belong to the other text.
Select only the 1. Or the first character before the space you want to adjust. Click on the character spacing drop down in the “Font” group on the “Home” tab and choose “More Spacing”.
You can also get to this by clicking on the little icon in the bottom right of the “Font” group to see additional options. A dialog box will show up that allows you to change character spacings 5. There is a drop down menu with 3 options: • Normal – This is just the normal spacing • Expanded – This is if you want more space between the characters • Condensed – This is if you want to reduce the space between characters We will choose “Condensed” since we want less space. Now we must decide by how many points we will reduce the space in the text input box. We experiment with different values and end up with 20. And now we have text that has better kerning and is more balanced Posted on Author Categories Tags,,,,.
PowerPoint for Office 365 for Mac PowerPoint 2019 for Mac PowerPoint 2016 for Mac PowerPoint for Mac 2011 You can customize and change fonts and character spacing (also known as kerning) on the Home tab in the Font group. This illustration shows the features available in the Font group: 1. Click the arrow to scroll through and select a style. Click the arrow to choose a font size.
Or, select the number in the box, enter a new number, and press RETURN. Increase or Decrease Font Size.
Click Increase Font Size or Decrease Font Size to incrementally change the size of selected text. Clear All Formatting. Click to return selected text to its default formatting. Bold, Italic, and Underline.
Click Bold, Italic, or Underline to apply to selected text. Click to make selected text appear crossed out. Superscript and Subscript. Click to make selected text smaller and slightly above (superscript) or below (subscript) the normal line of type. Character Spacing (kerning). Click the arrow to choose how tightly or loosely spaced your text appears.
Click More Spacing for fine-tuned control over character spacing. Click the arrow to change casing of selected text. Choose from Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word, and tOGGLE cASE. Click the arrow to select a font color.
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