Playing with text in PowerPoint is a pretty easy and most attractive way of creating amazing slides. Using the free fonts available in your PC or the fonts downloaded from the internet, you can create amazing typography but the problem lies when you try to send it across to someone who is going to present at somewhere else because the typography doesn’t stay the same the fonts change depending on the fonts available on the presenter’s computer. So to tackle this problem you have two options the first one is to package your presentation with the fonts you used and the second one is converting the text to shape so they are uneditable and stay the same in all the computers. There is a plus and minus side of this effort, first, the plus is that the fonts become shapes which means all shape format options are applicable and coming to the minus side of it is that these are no longer fonts which means you can’t edit them if you find any typing mistake, so you better proofread everything before you convert the text to shape. And if you are all set about the above details, here’s how you can convert text to shape in PowerPoint.
- Type the text and align it on your slide.
- Now draw a shape(preferably a rectangle shape) and place it on top of the typography
- Now select the both elements (text and shape) drawing the mouse around them while holding the right-click. Go to Format > Merge Shapes > Intersect. Once you do that you find the text remains the same but when you click on it you see it to be shaped. Now you can apply shape format options and do what you want it to be.
Now if you have multiple texts like a typography design you won’t be able to convert all the text to shape using the Merge shapes’ Intersect function but instead, you need to select all the elements and select Fragment from the Merge shapes options. This will cut out shapes from the text, just delete the unwanted and use the one you need.
