

Then, embed the font in the way that suits the situation best. Don’t use more than two non-standard fonts in your presentation to keep a consistent design and small file size.Īgain, you will be prompted to select between embedding only the characters used in the presentation's text or the entire character set. Each font can take up to several megabytes of the published presentation size. Note: the file size can grow dramatically if you embed all font's available characters. To be on the safe side, we recommend that you sel ect Embed all characters, although it will use more space.

In this "Preserve fidelity when sharing this presentation" section, you can choose between two embedding options and either embed only the characters used in the text, or the font's entire character set, including special characters. The PowerPoint options window will appear. Sel ect Options in the lower-left corner of the main PowerPoint menu Open a presentation that you want to share Step 2. You can get a walkthrough of the steps to import fonts in PowerPoint presentations below. How to Embed Fonts in PowerPoint on Windows Make sure that the Font embeddability property is either Installable or Editable. Remove the Read-only attribute if it’s checked, and then click OK.

Right-click the font and sel ect Properties.Ĥ. Find the font that you used in your presentation (e.g., Lobster Regular).ģ. Open File Explorer and go to the Fonts folder (C:\Windows\Fonts).Ģ. Log in as Administrator (to change font file attributes if necessary).ġ. To do that, you need to check font file properties as explained below. Learn how to embed fonts in Microsoft PowerPoint both on a Windows PC and a Mac to convey the intended look and feel of specific fonts in your presentation.īefore adding fonts in PowerPoint, make sure that the font file you want to embed is not read-only, and that it is available for embedding. If you got creative with fonts and want the presentation you created to remain intact when opened by the recipient on another computer, you need to make sure that the fonts are embedded in the presentation. Custom fonts are automatically substituted with a standard font if the recipient’s computer (or website) doesn’t have the desired font installed. Thus, if you send a presentation with those fonts to a colleague, the text might not appear correctly.

Third-party fonts are not the embedded fonts used in a PowerPoint presentation by default.
