Text is an important way to display your ideas to your audience and highlight the important points of your presentation. While you may need to include an explanation, it’s best to keep your text short and succinct, so your main ideas are clearly visible.

Click the Text button in the top menu to add a new text element. Alternatively, right-click on the canvas to open the context menu, and select Insert Text. Once added, customize your text using the property toolbar. Click More fonts at the bottom of the Font dropdown list to browse the extended collection based on font type and/or script. Select Ask AI from the property bar to enhance your text or to transform it to visual stories. Create text presets on Style > Text style.

Adding text

Since templates come with text boxes ready for you to edit, adding text is simple. Just click on a text box and start typing.

If you need to add more text boxes, click on Text from the top toolbar or right-click on the canvas and select Insert Text in the context toolbar. A text box will appear on your canvas, you can click on it and start typing.

Changing the text size

There are multiple ways to change the text size in your presentation.
You can click on the text box to select it, then drag a corner to enlarge or reduce it. You can also use the A- and A+ buttons in the context toolbar. Or, for better precision, you can also change the size of your text by setting a numeric value to it in the property toolbar.

If you select multiple text boxes by holding down the Shift button, you will be able to adjust their text sizes together.

Using Prezi AI Text Enhancement

1. Click on the text you want to enhance to select it.
2. Select the Ask AI button on the property bar that appears.
3. Choose from the list: 

• Turn into bullet points: is a great way to quickly summarize your key ideas 
• Make shorter: streamline your message
• Make longer: elaborate on your content
• Simplify: make your content more straightforward

4. You can repeat or combine text enhancements as much as you’d like.

Learn more about this feature here.

Using Prezi AI for Visual Stories

1. Click on the text you want to turn into a visual story.
2. Select the Ask AI button on the property bar that appears.
3. Select from the list:

• Flow chart: break down your text into steps that your audience can easily follow along with. Use them to simplify a process or cover the main highlights of any story.
• Visual list: perfect for showing steps in a process or listing components in a unique and fun way.
• Animated story: set up your text for a big reveal. They’re the perfect visual story for establishing context and then making a big point for your audience.
• Zoom: great for showing your audience the details of your work. They are a progressive zoom that goes further with each point in the story.

Learn more about this feature here.

Other editing options

You can edit a text’s font, size, style, color, and alignment using the property toolbar. Simply click on the text to bring up editing options in the property toolbar. From here you can edit and customize your text.

Enable text autofit

Enable to fit your text into the text box size you have chosen or to adjust the text size automatically as you write.

Changing the text style

You can change the text style using presets including Title, Subtitles, Normal text, and more from the left-most area of the context toolbar. You can also change the font manually by selecting a new one from the dropdown. Please note that only one font can be used per text box.

Formatting text

Select from the property toolbar the B button to make your text bold, or the I button to italicize the text. 

You can also add bullets to your text, change the alignment, and choose indentation from the same area.

Adjusting text color

Click the Text color button to open the color palette. Then choose from a variety of preset colors or add a custom color by using its hexadecimal code or color picker. You can also add a background color to your text using the Fill color button.

Highlighting text and adding rounded corners to your text background

Click the Fill color button to pick a highlight color for your text box. From here, you can pick a new color, change the opacity of the background, and add a corner radius for rounded corners.

Underlining text

You can add a line to your text by clicking the Shape button on the top menu, then selecting Line. Drag the line you want under your text. You can adjust the line’s thickness and size using the context toolbar.

Rotating text

Click on the text box to select it. Hover your cursor near the text box's corner until the rotation icon appears. Click and drag to rotate your selection.

Deleting a text box

To remove a text box from your canvas, click on it and press DELETE or BACKSPACE on your keyboard.

Finding and replacing text

To find and replace text in any part of your presentation, use the CTRL+F keyboard shortcut on Windows and CMD+F on Mac, then search for a textual element in the sidebar and if necessary, replace it one by one or collectively.

Adding and using fonts from Google Fonts

When updating your text style, you have a vast amount of fonts to choose from besides the ones visible in the list available in the context toolbar. Click More fonts at the bottom of the dropdown list to browse the extended collection based on font type, script, or by name and tick the box next to its name to add it to your default font list. You can then go back to the dropdown list to select and use the font you just added from Google Fonts.

To remove a font from the list, simply untick the box next to its name and click the blue Update fonts button. It will no longer be available from the dropdown list but you can re-add it any time.

Creating text presets in the “Text” sidebar

You can apply different text style presets throughout your presentation to make your text outstanding and consistent. To learn more about this feature, please check this article.

Writing with right-to-left scripts in Prezi

You can enable right-to-left writing in Prezi Present at any time for additional language support. Here’s how to set everything up. 

1. Click the Add text button from the top menu bar. A text box will appear on the canvas.
2. Select the text box. A property bar will appear.
3. Click on the font family and select More fonts.
4. In the list that appears, filter for Arabic or Hebrew and enable the fonts you like. Remember the exact font name. 
5. Click the Update fonts button.
6. Click on the font family again and select your preferred font.
7. Set your computer’s keyboard settings to Arabic or Hebrew.

Learn more about it in this article.

Editing shortcuts

These keyboard shortcuts may help while editing your text in Prezi Present.

• CTRL/CMD+A: select all
• CTRL/CMD+C: copy
• CTRL/CMD+X: cut
• CTRL/CMD+V: paste
• CTRL/CMD+Z: undo
• CTRL/CMD+Y: redo
• CTRL/ALT+BACKSPACE: delete text word by word
• SHIFT+click: select multiple objects