The Format text action enables you to find matching text and apply font formatting to selected occurrences in a presentation or a specific slide. Use it to standardize emphasis, branding, or visual style across slides.

Settings

  • Session name: Select one of the following options:
    • Session name: Enter the name of the session used during the Open action.

      (Optional) Click the Insert a value icon to select an existing variable that you have used to store the default session name.

    • Variable: Enter the name of the variable that you have used to store the PowerPoint session name.
  • Find text: Specify the exact text to be formatted.
    Note: A maximum of 256 characters are allowed.
  • Search criteria: Select one of the following options to match the search criteria:
    • Match case: Matches only text with the same capitalization as the found text, enabling case-sensitive matching.
    • Match whole words: Limits matches to whole-word instances (avoid partials).
  • Range: Select one of the following options to specify the scope of search:
    • Full presentation: Searches and formats text across all slides.
    • Specific slide: Searches only within the selected slide. Specify the slide index number to format the text on that slide.
  • Text occurrence: Select one of the following options to specify which instances of the found text you want to format:
    • All occurrences: Formats every match found within the chosen range.
    • First occurrence: Formats only the first occurrence found.
    • Last occurrence: Formats only the last occurrence found.
  • Text formatting: Enable this option to apply formatting changes.
    • Font type: Specify the name of the font to apply.
    • Font size: Specify the font size as a number.
    • Font color: Specify a color in hexadecimal format.

    Select one of these styling options: Bold, Italic, Underline

    Note: If you do not specify any of these options: Font type, Font size, or Font color, the action will only find the text and assign the search count to the variable, without applying any formatting.
  • Assign output to variable: Create or choose a Number variable to store the number of formatted text occurrences.