Format text properties
Apply various styles and effects to text in slides and make your presentation content look impressive. Using the Editor app for iOS, you can change the color of text to make it match your brand, list ideas using bulleted or numbered lists, add superscript or subscript to indicate scientific equations, and much more.
Change the font format
Apply a font format such as bold, italic, or underline to make your text stand out on a slide. Bold text can be used to make a strong impression, while italics are useful for emphasis. You can also italicize slide titles when introducing a new term to make them a little more elegant. Underlining can be useful to differentiate the heading from the body text.
- Double-tap the text and click the Format option. This will display the text formatting options on the bottom pane.
- Tap to apply any of the following font face options:
: To bold the selected text
: To italicize the selected text
: To underline the selected text
: To strike out the text on slides during the review process but still leave the original text visible
Add superscript and subscript
If you want to show mathematical and scientific equations on slides, then you will need the superscript and subscript symbols. These symbols allow you to make smaller notations that are slightly higher or lower than the rest of your text.
- Double-tap the text, symbol, figure, or number and then click the Format option. This will display the text formatting options on the bottom pane.
- Choose one of the following:
Change the font color
Make your text look vibrant and ensure it contrasts sharply with your slide background colors. The Show app for iOS provides a vast range of color schemes, which you use to can highlight important statements in your slides and make them more readable. For example, adding dark fonts to a light background or light fonts to a dark theme can help you obtain contrast in slides.
- Double-click the text and select the Format option. This will display the text formatting options at the bottom pane.
- Scroll down to the Font Color option and tap the color you want to apply (either from THEME COLORS or STANDARD COLORS).
- If you don't see the color you want in the list, tap and select one from the More Colors option.
Choose a font family
Fonts deliver both message and tone to your audience almost instantaneously on your presentation screen. Picking the right font for your design is important to keep hold of your audience's attention until the end of a presentation. You can apply a range of fonts to differentiate elements on a slide, such as the title head, body content, and table data values.
- Double-tap the text and click the Format option. This will display the text formatting options on the bottom pane.
- Tap Family on the pane and choose your desired font family from the list.
- Scroll down to see a list of all the available font faces in the app.
Font Weight
Font weights in a slide helps you to create a visual hierarchy within your text. You can use heavy/bold for titles, light for sub-titles, and normal for body content. This will convey the order of importance of your content to your audience.
- Double-tap the text and click the Format option. This will open the text formatting options.
- Scroll down and tap Weight.
- Tap your preferred font weight.
Change the font size
Resize the text placed within objects on a slide to make it fit better with other objects. You might change the font size if you want to highlight some of the content on the slide and make it larger than the rest of the text on your slide.
- Double-tap the text and click the Format option. This will display the text formatting options on the bottom pane.
- Scroll down to the Size option and adjust the size of the text using + and -.
Change the text alignment
Align your text horizontally or vertically on the slide to consistently line up your content with other objects. Properly arranging text makes it easier for your audience to read the deck, grasp your key concepts, and appreciate visual cues.
- Double-click the paragraphs you want to align on the slide and click the Format option. You can select a placeholder, text box, or shape to apply the alignment to all the content within it.
- Scroll down to the Alignment option and align your text horizontally or vertically as follows:
To align the selected text horizontally:
To align the selected text vertically:
Add list style
You can use bullets on your slide to make your writing more concise and easy to read.
Add bulleted list style
- Double-tap the text and choose the Format option. This will open the text formatting options on the bottom pane.
- Scroll down the options and enable the List Style switch.
- Choose the BULLETS option and pick the bullet style you prefer.
- Tap the More Options to customize the bullet list properties like Size and Color.
Add numbered list style
You can include instructions on a slide and convey them in sequential order using the numbered list style option.
- Double-tap the text and click the Format option. This will open the text formatting options on the bottom pane.
- Scroll down the options and enable the List Style switch.
- Choose the NUMBERS option and pick the number style you prefer.
- Click the More Options to customize the numbered list properties like Starts at, Size, and Color.
Adjust the line spacing
Line spacing is the space between each line in a paragraph on a slide. It's just as important as the font size on the slide. If the lines are too narrow, the text will be hard to read. If the line spaces are too large, the text will appear unrelated and spread out. Therefore, setting the right line spacing is important to improve readability.
- Double-click the paragraph or line you want to adjust and click the Format option.
- Scroll down to List Spacing option and do any of the following:
i. To adjust the line spacing within a paragraph, use the buttons provided next to the Line Space optio.
ii. To adjust the spacing after or before a paragraph, use the up and down arrow buttons next to the Before and After options under Paragraph Spacing.
Change the text indentation
Adding indentation is a good way to distinguish the start of a new paragraph, especially when there is no paragraph spacing. This can also be useful to create a multilevel bulleted list where each section is divided into a clear first, second, and third level section in the presentation. The usual text indents (right and left) set the space between the right and left margins on a slide. You can adjust this indent space as explained below.
- Double-click the paragraph or bulleted list you want to indent and click the Format option.
- Scroll down to Text Indent and apply one of the following indent styles:
Align text within a text box, shape, or placeholder
You can position and align text placed within text boxes and shapes using the margin space. Adjusting the lines with respect to the internal margin (left, right, top, and bottom) helps you provide breathing space between the content and the placeholder.
- Tap on the text box, shape, or placeholder containing the text and choose the Format option.
- Scroll down to Text Box option and align the text using the Left, Top, Right, and Bottom options.
Hyperlink
With the Show app for iOS, you can link a selected text to another slide, to an external website, or open an email template.
- Double tap the text and click the Format option. This will open the text formatting options.
- Tap Hyperlink. This will take you to the HyperLink page.
- Tap Link To. You can link your text to a webpage, an email address, and slides.
Webpage:
- Select the required text you'd like to hyperlink.
- Enter the webpage URL.
- Enter a tooltip if necessary.
Email Address:
- Select the required text you'd like to hyperlink.
- Enter an email address and subject.
- Enter a tooltip if necessary. This is optional.
Slide
- Select the required text you'd like to hyperlink.
- Tap Slide.
- Tap to choose First Slide, Last Slide, Next Slide, or Previous Slide.
- Tap Fixed Slide to choose from the list of slides in this presentation.
Text Properties in Hyperlink
- Select the required text you'd like to hyperlink.
- Tap Text Properties within Webpage, Email Address, or Slides.
- Tap Hyperlink to change the color of the hyperlinked text. Tap More Colors to pick a color.
- Tap Followed Hyperlink to change the color of the followed link. Tap More Colors to pick a color.
- Toggle the Underline switch to underline the hyperlinked text.
Cut, copy, and paste text
Show lets you cut or copy text and paste it on another slide with ease. Copying and pasting text saves your time since you don't have to retype huge lines of text every time.
- Double-tap the text or paragraph and tap Cut or Copy option.
- Tap the slide (or the position within slide) you want to paste the copied content to and click Paste. The content will be pasted on the slide.
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