Anybody who has ever worked on any kind of document, from a word processed letter to a PowerPoint presentation, knows that formatting text is one of the most frequent tasks you perform. That is perhaps why Microsoft added the Mini toolbar in this version of PowerPoint. Now, when you select text, a small floating toolbar appears right next to the text itself. You can easily click on tools such as Bold, Italic, or Font Size without having to move your mouse up to the ribbon and back to the text again.

See Also

For more information about working with text formatting tools that appear both on the Home tab of the ribbon and in the Mini toolbar, see Chapter 9.

Tip

The Mini toolbar is somewhat translucent when you first select text; you have to move your mouse over to it to get a solid image of the tool buttons on it. If you move the mouse away from the toolbar, you have to reselect the text to make it appear again.