How To Add A Font To Powerpoint



If you use a lot of sources in your PowerPoint presentations that need footnotes, or if you’re a prolific user of mathematical formulae, you’re going to need to know how to make your text superscript and subscript in PowerPoint. Trouble is, when you’re most in a hurry you can never seem to find where the buttons are hiding. Fear not, here are three ways you can try to have these tools readily available in your arsenal for when you need them most!

Embed New Fonts in Your PowerPoint File So to fix this problem that comes from using custom fonts let's go to the file save as option. When we're preparing to save the file let's go to the Tools Save Options here at the bottom of the Save window. On this window there's an important box we need to check that's off by default. Oct 16, 2014 PowerPoint allows you to embed non-standard fonts as long as they are TTF or OTF files. All you have to do is head to File and choose Options. There, click Save and check the box for “ Embed fonts in this file “. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Font drop-down arrow and choose the font you want to apply. Changing the font in the Slide Master view You can also change all the fonts using the Fonts option, located on the Slide Master tab, in the Background group. Click the drop-down arrow and choose the one that best suits your needs. Open your PowerPoint document or new slide and select the text box. Once selected, add in your text. Add text box and type text in slide Highlight the text you want to add a gradient effect to, and right-click on it. Go to the main PowerPoint menu on the upper-left corner. Go to the Save options on the left. Find the embedding options at the very bottom and check Embed fonts in the file. Here, you can either embed only the characters used in the presentation’s text, or the font's entire character set.

Method 1: Use the ‘Home’ tab

When you open up PowerPoint you’ll notice it opens the ‘Home’ tab in the ribbon at the top of your window. There are a number of font options ready and waiting for you to try, but sadly superscript and subscript aren’t part of the chosen few, so here’s what to do:

  1. Expand the font options by clicking the symbol in the bottom right of the font section of your home window.
  2. Check the box for either superscript or subscript in the window that will open up.

Method 2: Superscript and subscript keyboard shortcuts

If you use superscript or subscript a lot, you might want to know the keyboard shortcut to save you rooting around in sub-menus.

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  1. Highlight the text you want to make superscript or subscript.
  2. Use one of the following shortcuts:
  • Superscript: Ctrl + Shift + Plus
  • Subscript: Ctrl + Plus
  1. When you’ve written your superscript or subscript text, hit the shortcut again and continue typing as normal.

In fact, if this has whet your appetite for keyboard shortcuts, we have a handy cheat sheet you can download and use.

Method 3: Add superscript and subscript options to your Quick Access Toolbar

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There is an option to have both the superscript and subscript options at a mere one click away, and readily accessible at all times of using PowerPoint, and that is to add them to your Quick Access Toolbar.

How

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The Quick Access Toolbar is a ribbon of tools that sits above or below the main PowerPoint ribbon and saves you searching in sub-menus to find the functionality you use most frequently.

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You can create your own by following these steps:

  1. Right click on the main PowerPoint ribbon and select ‘Customize Quick Access Toolbar’.
  2. Add the commands you use the most – including superscript and subscript. Both of these options are found in the ‘All commands’ drop down and listed alphabetically.
  3. Once you click ‘OK’ the toolbar will show above your ribbon. We think it’s easier to access below the ribbon, so right click again and choose the option ‘Show Quick Access Toolbar Below the Ribbon’.

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However! If you think this sounds like quite a laborious task in order to pull out your most-frequently-used tools, we have a Quick Access Toolbar that our PowerPoint experts use every day, and it’s ready for you to download and import. Click here for your download, which includes step-by-step instructions to get you started. Not only will you have your superscript and subscript options in one handy place, but there’s plenty of other great shortcuts to hack your way to PowerPoint efficiency.