How to Change the Font Format Effects in PowerPoint

PowerPoint format options can be really helpful to apply font effects to your paragraphs and text. Here we will review the available format option effect in PowerPoint 2010 that are also present in the new version of PowerPoint 2013. These options are also available in the new version of PowerPoint 2015 Preview and PowerPoint Online.

With these format font styles you can apply styles to your paragraphs and change the appearance of text which make help to change the overall style in the presentation. You can apply the font styles to a single presentation or even to PowerPoint templates which is very useful if you want to follow the same visual guidelines in your organization.

Besides bold and italic styles there are some other interesting format options to use. As we can see in the image, the effects available in PowerPoint includes strikethrough, double strikethrough, superscript, subscript, small caps, all caps, equalize characters. You can also change the underline style to use double lines as well as its color.

To access the styles, you can select the text and then a contextual popup menu will appear. Here you can apply the changes using the popup menu or enter Format Text Effects to open a dialog box with more options.