By Kelly Vandever
Not many people will appreciate good news about fonts…
Before replacing your fonts in PowerPoint, I recommend double-checking that you are using a safe PowerPoint font like Arial to ensure your fonts appear properly in all versions of PowerPoint (Mac or PC). For a list of safe PowerPoint fonts and things to keep in mind when selecting them, see our article here. On the Mac you use the Font Book to add the font and then copy it to the Windows Office Compatible folder. If it isn't native, you may have to embed or distribute the font along with the Word file, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet. For more information about this see Fonts that are installed with Microsoft Office.
Powerpoint For Mac Fonts For Beginners
Download your desired font from a website that offers downloadable fonts (links in Resources). This guide is for the PowerPoint for Office 365 for Mac and PowerPoint 2019 for Mac. These versions support embed fonts, while Word 2019 and Excel 2019 for Mac do not support embedded fonts. Open the PowerPoint file that you want to embed fonts, and then go to the menu to select “Preferences”. A dialog box will open,.
But if you have to be flexible enough to present your PowerPoint slides on either a PC version of PowerPoint and a Mac version of PowerPoint, I have good news.
With the latest update to PowerPoint for the Mac, Microsoft made it so that fonts that are saved as embedded fonts* in a Windows version of PPT can now come over and be viewed correctly in Mac version of PowerPoint! Yeah! This should help some presenters from having their PowerPoint text look odd because of unrecognized font types. (Well at least of TrueType fonts.)
(*To embed fonts in the PC version of PowerPoint, go to File / Options / Save and check the box toward the bottom of the page that says Embed fonts in the file. I personally choose the option to Embed all characters just in case I decide to change any of the text later.)
Unfortunately, the reciprocity does not go the other way around. There is still no way embed fonts in a Mac version of PPT and have it persistent in the PC version of PPT.
But hey, it’s progress!
Thanks Microsoft! It’s the little things that make me happy!
For those who want to know what fonts can be found in both the PC and the Mac versions of PowerPoint, see the updated list below. Eclipse ide mac osx. I’ve also noted those fonts that are standard in the PowerPoint online version as well.
Enjoy!
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Whether you’re looking to spruce up an internal presentation and impress Mark over in management, or looking to taunt that one employee who never fills the coffee machine, incorporating custom typography is a powerful tool for bringing any piece of text to life. Luckily for us Mac users, the good folks at Apple have made the process of importing custom fonts a straightforward process.
Selecting a font you like to use.
For better or worse, there is an overwhelming choice of fonts out there on the internet. You’ll have to choose depending on your project or presentation, what suits your theme and what message you’d like to convey.
Different fonts portray different personalities which are appropriate in various situations. Old style serif fonts feel formal and professional while sans-serif fonts feel modern and clean.
We’ve written a whole article on font choices in Powerpoint, but to give you an overview, take the following guide for a baseline.
Calibri, Times New Roman, and Verdana are considered conservative fonts, bringing out a trustworthy and stable image which some deem to be boring.
Brush Script have a warm and feminine effect but don’t seem to inspire confidence.
Courier New and Stencil reflect a cold, unattractive and unemotional setting.
Impact font reveals a strong, solid, masculine and forceful image, though is overused.
Jokerman are exciting, extravagant but also immature and sometimes tacky.
But hold your horses, these are pretty familiar, standard fonts. Luckily we have access to hundreds of thousands of free fonts.
Finding a custom font
Let’s go ahead and use 1001fonts.com
Once we’ve chosen the font we want to use, go ahead and click the green download button on the right.
Installing a custom font in Mac
The single font is downloaded to your computer as a single file or in a compressed folder.
If it is compressed extract it.
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Double-click the font file to open the Font Book application. The font displays in a window, providing a preview of what it will look like in PowerPoint.
Select Install Font
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And now it’s installed, head over to PowerPoint (making sure to restart the program) and click the “Format” tab.
Embed Fonts Powerpoint For Mac
Click the “Font” drop-down menu and select the installed font to use it in your PowerPoint presentation.