Bullet Points

[yellowhouse1976]

Hi

I use PP for design work a lot but I dont use it much for just producing
slides for presentations etc. This is probably a daft question but is there a
way of making PP deal with bullet points the way I want it to. If you have a
bullet point which due to the size of the text box carries over 2 lines how
do I get PP to line up the second line of text directly under the start of
the first instead of being under the bullet point. Hope that makes sense.

I am using PP2003 SP3 with XP

Thanks

J

[Echo S]

Turn on the ruler using View | Ruler.

You will see indent markers -- a triangle pointing downward and a triangle
pointing upward. Drag the bottom one to the right. Do this on the slide
master so it's set up in the placeholder and you don't have to do it every
time.

If you press CTRL while dragging the indent markers, you have finer control
over the placement.
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Post by yellowhouse1976
Hi
I use PP for design work a lot but I dont use it much for just producing
slides for presentations etc. This is probably a daft question but is there a
way of making PP deal with bullet points the way I want it to. If you have a
bullet point which due to the size of the text box carries over 2 lines how
do I get PP to line up the second line of text directly under the start of
the first instead of being under the bullet point. Hope that makes sense.
I am using PP2003 SP3 with XP
Thanks
J

[yellowhouse1976]

Thanks but this does not work on the slide I am working with. The ruler view
is on but there is no bottom ident marker to move to line it up. I am
surprised that PP does not work in the same way as Word in this respect. I
cant see why anyone would not want this as a standard option

I cant do it on the slide master as there are no placeholders to work with

Post by Echo S
Turn on the ruler using View | Ruler.
You will see indent markers -- a triangle pointing downward and a triangle
pointing upward. Drag the bottom one to the right. Do this on the slide
master so it's set up in the placeholder and you don't have to do it every
time.
If you press CTRL while dragging the indent markers, you have finer control
over the placement.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Post by yellowhouse1976
Hi
I use PP for design work a lot but I dont use it much for just producing
slides for presentations etc. This is probably a daft question but is there a
way of making PP deal with bullet points the way I want it to. If you have a
bullet point which due to the size of the text box carries over 2 lines how
do I get PP to line up the second line of text directly under the start of
the first instead of being under the bullet point. Hope that makes sense.
I am using PP2003 SP3 with XP
Thanks
J

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Post by yellowhouse1976
Thanks but this does not work on the slide I am working with. The ruler view
is on but there is no bottom ident marker to move to line it up.

Click on the text you want to work with first.

I am

Post by yellowhouse1976
surprised that PP does not work in the same way as Word in this respect.

PowerPoint is one program. Word is another. Different purposes, different
features. So it goes.

Post by yellowhouse1976
I
cant see why anyone would not want this as a standard option
I cant do it on the slide master as there are no placeholders to work with

Post by Echo S
Turn on the ruler using View | Ruler.
You will see indent markers -- a triangle pointing downward and a triangle
pointing upward. Drag the bottom one to the right. Do this on the slide
master so it's set up in the placeholder and you don't have to do it every
time.
If you press CTRL while dragging the indent markers, you have finer control
over the placement.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx

Post by yellowhouse1976
Hi
I use PP for design work a lot but I dont use it much for just producing
slides for presentations etc. This is probably a daft question but is there a
way of making PP deal with bullet points the way I want it to. If you have a
bullet point which due to the size of the text box carries over 2 lines how
do I get PP to line up the second line of text directly under the start of
the first instead of being under the bullet point. Hope that makes sense.
I am using PP2003 SP3 with XP
Thanks
J

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[Luc]

Yellowhouse,
I guess you are using ordinary textboxes to type your text in and not
standard placeholders?
If you are using textboxes, do the following, format a new textbox the way
you want, you can drag the carats in the ruler (view - ruler) to make all
lines line up correctly, just drag the bottom two carats to the setting you
want.
Now, right-click the textbox and choose set standard for AutoShapes. That
should do the trick, this is a presentation setting only, in you want this
for all new presentations you will have to edit blank.dot.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01010.htm#ppt2003
Luc Sanders
MVP - PowerPoint

Post by yellowhouse1976
Hi
I use PP for design work a lot but I dont use it much for just producing
slides for presentations etc. This is probably a daft question but is there a
way of making PP deal with bullet points the way I want it to. If you have a
bullet point which due to the size of the text box carries over 2 lines how
do I get PP to line up the second line of text directly under the start of
the first instead of being under the bullet point. Hope that makes sense.
I am using PP2003 SP3 with XP
Thanks
J

[yellowhouse1976]

Thanks. I will have a play around. Would I be better off using standard
placeholders? I am afraid I do not know what the difference is.

Post by Luc
Yellowhouse,
I guess you are using ordinary textboxes to type your text in and not
standard placeholders?
If you are using textboxes, do the following, format a new textbox the way
you want, you can drag the carats in the ruler (view - ruler) to make all
lines line up correctly, just drag the bottom two carats to the setting you
want.
Now, right-click the textbox and choose set standard for AutoShapes. That
should do the trick, this is a presentation setting only, in you want this
for all new presentations you will have to edit blank.dot.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01010.htm#ppt2003
Luc Sanders
MVP - PowerPoint

Post by yellowhouse1976
Hi
I use PP for design work a lot but I dont use it much for just producing
slides for presentations etc. This is probably a daft question but is there a
way of making PP deal with bullet points the way I want it to. If you have a
bullet point which due to the size of the text box carries over 2 lines how
do I get PP to line up the second line of text directly under the start of
the first instead of being under the bullet point. Hope that makes sense.
I am using PP2003 SP3 with XP
Thanks
J

[Steve Rindsberg]

Post by yellowhouse1976
Thanks. I will have a play around. Would I be better off using standard
placeholders? I am afraid I do not know what the difference is.

Placeholders are the things you see on pretty much any newly inserted slide that say
"Click to add [title, subtitle, whatever]". Anything you type into one of them also
appears in the Outline view.

They behave a bit differently than normal text boxes when it comes to bullets and
indents and such. And they follow the formatting set in the Slide Master. In other
words, all you have to do is change the formatting of the placeholder on the Master
to change the formatting for all of the text on slides that follow that particular
Master.

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