Prezi text editor

Over the years, the Prezi text editor has evolved to be quite robust, and it's now possible to easily do all of your text editing directly within Prezi.

Spell checker

When you spell something incorrectly, Prezi will underline the word it doesn't recognize with a red line. This is just as you would see it in Microsoft Word or any other text editor.

To correct the word, simply right-click on it (or Command + Click on Mac OS) and select the word you meant to type from the suggestions, as shown in the following screenshot:

The text drag-apart feature

So a colleague of yours has just e-mailed you the text that they want to appear in the Prezi you're designing for them? That's great news as it'll help you understand the flow of the presentation. What's frustrating, though, is that you'll have to copy and paste every single line or paragraph across to put it in the right place on your canvas.

At least, that used to be the case before Prezi introduced the drag-apart feature in the text editor. This means you can now easily drag a selection of text anywhere on your canvas without having to rely on the copy and paste options. Let's see how we can easily change the text we spellchecked previously, as shown in the following screenshot:

In order to drag your text apart, simply highlight the area you require, hold the mouse button down, and then drag the text anywhere on your canvas.

Once you have separated your text, you can then edit the separate parts as you would edit any other inpidual object on your canvas. In this example, we can change the size of the company name and leave the other text as it is, which we couldn't do within a single textbox:

Tip

Building Prezis for colleagues

If you've kindly offered to build a Prezi for one of your colleagues, ask them to supply the text for it in Word format. You'll be able to run a spellcheck on it from there before you copy and paste it into Prezi. Any bad spellings you miss will also get highlighted on your Prezi canvas but it's good to use both options as a safety net.

Font colors

Other than dragging text apart to make it stand out more on its own, you might want to highlight certain words so that they jump out at your audience even more.

The great news is that you can now highlight inpidual lines of text or single words and change their color. To do so, just highlight a word by clicking and dragging your mouse across it. Then, click on the color picker at the top of the textbox to see the color menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Select any of the colors available in the palette to change the color of that piece of text. Nothing else in the textbox will be affected apart from the text you have selected. This gives you much greater freedom to use colored text in your Prezi design, and doesn't leave you restricted as in older versions of the software.

Tip

Choose the right color

To make good use of this feature, we recommend that you use a color that completely contrasts to the rest of your design. For example, if your design and corporate colors are blue, we suggest you use red or purple to highlight key words. Also, once you pick a color, stick to it throughout the presentation so that your audience knows when they see a key piece of information.

Bullet points and indents

Bullets and indents make it much easier to put together your business presentations and helps to give the audience some short, simple information as text in the same format they're used to seeing in other presentations. This can be done by simply selecting the main body of text and clicking on the bullet point icon at the top of the textbox.

This is a really simple feature, but a useful one nonetheless. We'd obviously like to point out that too much text on any presentation is a bad thing. Keep it short and to the point.

Note

Also, remember that too many bullets can kill a presentation.