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You can control the appearance of each slide's title by setting an initial style for the slide title's text from the Quick Styles gallery in the Presentation tab's Slide Title group and then modifying those settings using the controls in the Presentation tab's Title Format group or by simply using the Title Format group's controls directly. The controls work on the title format immediately, so when you change a value, you'll see the respective property change immediately.

##### You can change these properties of a slide's title

1. Set the font face 2. Set the font size 3. Set its position on the slide 4. Make its text bold 5. Italicize its text 6. Underline its text 7. Set its font color 8. Set its background color 9. Set its outline color 10. Set the width of its outline 11. Set the transparency of its background |

##### Set the slide title's font face

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group type or click a font in the Font box:
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##### Set the slide title's font size

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group type or click a font size in the Font Size box. You can also use the controls to the right of the Font Size box to increment or decrement the font size to the next size listed in the box:
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##### Set the slide title's position on the slide

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click the Title Position button to choose from one of three positions in which to locate the slide title. Here the slide title is positioned Left:
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##### Make the slide title bold

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click Bold:
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##### Italicize the slide title

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click Italic:
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##### Underline the slide title

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click Underline:
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##### Set the slide title's color

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click the Text Color button to choose the color of the slide title's text. Here, the slide title text, which already was set to Bold, is set to Red:
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##### Set the slide title's background color

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click the Background Color button to choose the color of the slide title's background. Here, the slide title text's background is set to Red, Lighter 60%:
You can control the transparency of the background color by clicking the Background Transparency button.
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##### Set the slide title's outline color

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click the Outline Color button to choose the color of the slide title's outline. Here, the outline is set to Yellow:
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##### Set the width of the slide title's outline

In addition to its color, you can set the outline's width. In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click the Outline Width button to choose the width of the outline:
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##### Set the transparency of the slide title's background

In the Presentation tab's Title Format group click the Background Transparency button to display the Transparency slider to set the transparency of the slide title's background fill:
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