10 STEPS
1. Open your Google Slides and click into the text you want to format.
2. Highlight your desired text. Then, click the fonts dropdown menu at top. Select your desired font, in this case Times New Roman
3. Click Decrease font size to make text smaller (hot key to do so is ⌘+Shift+comma)
4. Click Decrease font size (⌘+Shift+comma)
5. Click the letter at right to change Text color
6. Click red berry
7. Click the highlighter to change the background color. Click Highlight color
8. Click gray
9. Click Slide1Thisisexampletext
10. That's it. You're done. You now know the basics of editing text in Slides.