Thesaurus

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use thesaurus in PowerPoint.

• THESAURUS
• Step 1 - Open your PowerPoint presentation document. Select the word that you want to find either the synonym or antonym.


• Step 2 - Right click on the select word. A dropdown list will display. Move your mouse pointer to the option Synonyms and this will display another list which contains synonyms and the thesaurus option. Click on the option Thesaurus


• Step 2 (Alternative 1) - Click the Review tab, in the proofing group click on Thesaurus.


• Step 2 (Alternative 2) - Right click on the select word. From the Mini Toolbar displayed above the dropdown list, click on Thesaurus.


• Step 3 - The thesaurus pane will be opened at the right side of the windows document. In the pane, the selected word will be in the first section inside the search input. Then the Synonyms will be the section of displayed list of words, and lastly the Antonyms will be the last list of words that has in parenthesis (Antonyms).


• Step 4 - To replace the selected word with the synonym or antonym, move you mouse pointer over the word in the list. A little triangle icon will appear at the right side of that word, click on the icon, option for insert and copy will display. Click the Insert option. After that, close the pane.




NOTE:

If you click directly on the synonym or antonym, it will change the search input field to that word and change the displayed list to the synonym and antonym of that word. So, you must click on the triangle icon at the right side that displays when you mouse pointer is on top the option.

• Step 5 - The selected word will be successfully replaced with the synonym or antonym you inserted.




TIP:

After selecting the word that you want to use thesaurus for. Just press Shift + F7 on your keyboard and this will open the thesaurus pane at the right side of the windows document.