Font Types and Sizes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

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. In this tutorial, we use the terms typeface and font type interchangeably. 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:

Create a new presentation and type some text in the placeholder, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Text selected on the slide
Select the text which you want to format (refer to Figure 1, above). Now, navigate to the Home tab of the Ribbon and locate the Font group, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 2.
Figure 2: Font group within the Home tab of the Ribbon
Within the Font group, click the down-arrow located next to Font option, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 3. This brings up the Font drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Font drop-down gallery
As you can see in Figure 3, above the Font drop-down gallery is divided into two sections:
a. Theme Fonts, highlighted in blue, within Figure 3 above, displays the active font types of your presentation.
b. All Fonts, displays all fonts installed on the system, highlighted in green within Figure 3, above.
To change the font type from the default Theme Fonts to some other font, first select the text. Thereafter open the Font drop-down gallery shown in Figure 3, scroll down and choose any font type from within the All Fonts section. Figure 4 below shows a different font type, Impact being selected (highlighted in red within Figure 4). Click on the font type within the drop-down gallery to apply it to the selected text.
Figure 4: Impact font type being selected
Alternatively, you can directly type the name of the font within the Font box, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 5. Start typing the first few alphabets of the font you want to use. For example, when we typed Imp, we could locate Impact. Once the font name is active (see Figure 5), press the Return key to apply the font type to the selected text.
Figure 5: Type font name within the Font box
With the text still selected, navigate to the Home tab of the Ribbon. Within the Font group click the down-arrow located next to Font Size option, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 6. This bring up the Font Size drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Font Size drop-down gallery
Note that the font size with a tick mark is the size of the currently selected text. Now, scroll down the Font Size gallery to select other font size. Click on another Font size, as shown in Figure 7. Also, you can directly type in the font size value within the Font Size box.
Figure 7: Font Size being changed
Alternatively, you can use the Increase Font Size and Decrease Font Size buttons, highlighted in red within Figure 7 above to change the font size of selected text.
In Figure 8 below, you can see changes we made to the selected text. Compare it with the slide shown in Figure 1.
Figure 8: Font type and size changed
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