All fonts are stored in the C:WindowsFonts folder. You can also add fonts by simply dragging font files from the extracted files folder into this folder. Windows will automatically install them. If you want to see what a font looks like, open the Fonts folder, right-click the font file, and then click Preview. Once you have the PowerPoint Options window open, select the Save tab and then check the “Embed fonts in the file” checkbox. You then have the option to include all of the characters (increases the file size) or only the characters used (reduces the file size). Embed fonts from within the PowerPoint Options window. How to Add Fonts: PowerPoint automatically displays all of the fonts that you have downloaded to your computer. Therefore, you have to download fonts to your computer. Go to Google Fonts, then select whichever font you want by clicking the “ + ” button. If you closed PowerPoint before the installation process, open it back up again. Open a presentation and click a text box or click the “Click to add title” box on the main screen. This enables the Font drop-down menu. If you don’t have a text box selected, you won’t see the Font drop-down menu.
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!
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:
- Expand the font options by clicking the symbol in the bottom right of the font section of your home window.
- 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.
- Highlight the text you want to make superscript or subscript.
- Use one of the following shortcuts:
- Superscript: Ctrl + Shift + Plus
- Subscript: Ctrl + Plus
- 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.
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Method 3: Add superscript and subscript options to your Quick Access Toolbar
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.
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.
You can create your own by following these steps:
- Right click on the main PowerPoint ribbon and select ‘Customize Quick Access Toolbar’.
- 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.
- 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’.
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.
Gone are the days when business PowerPoint presentations were limited to use only the default system fonts. Now almost all professional presentation templates are designed incorporating modern custom font types.
Though adding a new font for Powerpoint is relatively a simple task, it often becomes a frustrating experience when things are not done right.
In this article, we will walk you through how to correctly add any custom font type which may be required for your powerpoint template, either in Windows or MAC.
So let’s begin…
Step 1. Download the external font file/s required for your new PowerPoint template
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Often you may find the required custom font types listed in a ‘Help’ file or a ‘Readme’ file inside your downloaded PowerPoint template. Also, some designers may add the link to the custom font files in the first slide of the template.
For all our Slidehelper PowerPoint templates, you may find the details about custom fonts inside a ‘Readme’ file.
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Once you have the link, copy and paste it to your web browser and download the font file/s
Step 2. Close all your Microsoft Office applications. These include PowerPoint, Words, Excel etc.
This is a very important step. Newly installed fonts may not display in your template if you ignore this step.
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Step 3. Install the font files
- If you received a .ZIP file from the font website, first you need to unzip it. If the font was downloaded as a .OTF file (OpenType) or a .TTF (TrueType) file you do not have to unzip/extract anything. (See the note at the bottom of this post for the difference between OTF and TTF fonts)
- When you have the font file (OTF or TTF), simply double click on it. Font preview window will open.
- Next, click the ‘Instal’ button. The location of the install button may vary based on your operating system. In Windows ‘Install’ button is located at the top of the preview window while in MAC it is located at the bottom.
Please note that if you see multiple font files inside the downloaded font package, you need to add all them. Often same font type is coming as separate files for each of its weight type. For example ‘Bold’, ‘Extra Bold’ etc. You may see these multiple font files inside the unzipped fonts folder as shown in the below screenshot.
Step 4. Relaunch PowerPoint and reopen your template file.
When you have installed all the required custom font files as above, you should see your template in its true beauty 🙂
If you have any questions feel free to add in the comments.
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Question: Should I install OTF (OpenTypeFormat) ) or TTF (TrueType Format) fonts?
Sometimes you may get the same font type in OTF format and TTF format.
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If you are given the choice between OTF and TTF when downloading, select OTF font format over TTF. OTF is a newer font format and better for desktop publishing and document processing. But if you can’t find the OTF version of a font, do not worry, TTF version will work fine.