

You'll recognize Cloud Fonts in PowerPoint, as they have a little Cloud symbol beside them. So if you are not sure about either of the two, it is always a good idea to embed your fonts anyway.

You will need an Internet connection for the fonts to download.You never have to worry about your carefully designed slides being messed up again! You need to pay attention to two things, though: You can download them directly in PowerPoint (or other Office-Applications for that matter) and use them in your presentations and documents!Īnd here's the amazing thing about it: when you open the presentation you created on any other device where Office 365 (or PPT 2019) is installed, the missing font downloads automatically from the cloud, so the fonts are protected from being replaced with other default fonts.

What are those, you ask? Well, as the name suggests, Cloud fonts are fonts hosted by Microsoft in the Cloud. With the newer versions of PowerPoint, we got an amazing and powerful tool: Cloud Fonts. Now whenever you save your presentation, all custom fonts are directly embedded into the file so you don't have to worry that it will look wrong on different computers! The modern solution: Cloud Fonts In practice, the achieved size reduction isn't usually worth the downsides. However DON'T do that, if other people will edit your presentation afterwards, since they can't edit your text freely. Tip: If you check the option Embed only the characters used in the presentation you can decrease the file size a little bit.
