When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default formatting
appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I access the ruler or the text
box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off. Selecting
bullets will line up the text, but I do not want bullets, and this issue is
making it impossible to accurately display important text. PLEASE HELP

If you do not want bullets in the entire presentation, I'd suggest changing
the master slide. On the Master slide you can turn off the bullets and
change the ruler settings to reflect what you need from the placeholders on
each of your newly inserted slides.


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"CroutonBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:35A52C26-5AB6-4CFD-9F15-(E-Mail Removed)...
> When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default formatting
> appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I access the ruler or the
> text
> box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off. Selecting
> bullets will line up the text, but I do not want bullets, and this issue
> is
> making it impossible to accurately display important text. PLEASE HELP

This did not work. I have the same problem and I need to have bullets on the
first slide, but not on most slides. the text in a table has the first line
aligned to the left and all other lines after that are indented about 4 or 5
characters. Changing the ruler does not fix this. VERY FRUSTRATING!

"Bill Dilworth" wrote:

> If you do not want bullets in the entire presentation, I'd suggest changing
> the master slide. On the Master slide you can turn off the bullets and
> change the ruler settings to reflect what you need from the placeholders on
> each of your newly inserted slides.
>
>
> --
> Bill Dilworth
> A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
> Users helping fellow users.
> http://billdilworth.mvps.org
> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
> yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
> com of our questions.
> www.pptfaq.com
> ..
> ..
>
>
>
> "CroutonBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:35A52C26-5AB6-4CFD-9F15-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default formatting
> > appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I access the ruler or the
> > text
> > box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off. Selecting
> > bullets will line up the text, but I do not want bullets, and this issue
> > is
> > making it impossible to accurately display important text. PLEASE HELP
>
>
>

Are you working with textboxes or tables or placeholders (where it says
"click to add text")? I can't quite tell from your post which it is you're
working with.

If you'll be more specific about your problem, we may be able to help you
find a solution.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


"ibyung2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F04A42F6-5BE2-484D-8942-(E-Mail Removed)...
> This did not work. I have the same problem and I need to have bullets on
the
> first slide, but not on most slides. the text in a table has the first
line
> aligned to the left and all other lines after that are indented about 4 or
5
> characters. Changing the ruler does not fix this. VERY FRUSTRATING!
>
> "Bill Dilworth" wrote:
>
> > If you do not want bullets in the entire presentation, I'd suggest
changing
> > the master slide. On the Master slide you can turn off the bullets and
> > change the ruler settings to reflect what you need from the placeholders
on
> > each of your newly inserted slides.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bill Dilworth
> > A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
> > Users helping fellow users.
> > http://billdilworth.mvps.org
> > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> > yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
> > yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
> > com of our questions.
> > www.pptfaq.com
> > ..
> > ..
> >
> >
> >
> > "CroutonBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:35A52C26-5AB6-4CFD-9F15-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default
formatting
> > > appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I access the ruler or
the
> > > text
> > > box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off. Selecting
> > > bullets will line up the text, but I do not want bullets, and this
issue
> > > is
> > > making it impossible to accurately display important text. PLEASE
HELP
> >
> >
> >

I am not working with placeholders. This happens in a cell that I am typing
text, within a new table.

Also, if I copy and paste a slide, and then go and get text from another
document, then paste it in that existing text box of the new slide, sometimes
the textbox will not keep the previous formatting that the old text had. To
fix it, sometimes I have to insert a new text box and then paste the text in,
then reformat that text box... but that is very time consuming.

"Echo S" wrote:

> Are you working with textboxes or tables or placeholders (where it says
> "click to add text")? I can't quite tell from your post which it is you're
> working with.
>
> If you'll be more specific about your problem, we may be able to help you
> find a solution.
>
> --
> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
> http://www.echosvoice.com
>
>
> "ibyung2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:F04A42F6-5BE2-484D-8942-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > This did not work. I have the same problem and I need to have bullets on
> the
> > first slide, but not on most slides. the text in a table has the first
> line
> > aligned to the left and all other lines after that are indented about 4 or
> 5
> > characters. Changing the ruler does not fix this. VERY FRUSTRATING!
> >
> > "Bill Dilworth" wrote:
> >
> > > If you do not want bullets in the entire presentation, I'd suggest
> changing
> > > the master slide. On the Master slide you can turn off the bullets and
> > > change the ruler settings to reflect what you need from the placeholders
> on
> > > each of your newly inserted slides.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bill Dilworth
> > > A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
> > > Users helping fellow users.
> > > http://billdilworth.mvps.org
> > > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> > > yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
> > > yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
> > > com of our questions.
> > > www.pptfaq.com
> > > ..
> > > ..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "CroutonBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:35A52C26-5AB6-4CFD-9F15-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default
> formatting
> > > > appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I access the ruler or
> the
> > > > text
> > > > box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off. Selecting
> > > > bullets will line up the text, but I do not want bullets, and this
> issue
> > > > is
> > > > making it impossible to accurately display important text. PLEASE
> HELP
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>

ibyung2 wrote:
> I am not working with placeholders. This happens in a cell that I am
> typing text, within a new table.

So when you type in a table cell, the first line of the text doesn't indent,
but lines below it do? In other words, you have a hanging indent that you'd
like to get rid of?

Clicking in the table cell and dragging the indent marker (the top one on
the bottom part of the ruler, to be exact) should resolve it. I'm not sure
if you tried that or not, because the original post here was talking about
changing the indents in the placeholder on the slide master, not in a table
cell.

That said, I can't seem to force a table here to default to a bad indent. If
I add a bullet point to the text in the table, PPT does pick up the bullet
point I used in the placeholder on this master slide, but it doesn't seem to
pick up the indent settings. This is in PPT 2003. What version of PPT are
you using? This isn't a table that's been inserted or copy/pasted from Word,
is it?

> Also, if I copy and paste a slide, and then go and get text from
> another document, then paste it in that existing text box of the new
> slide, sometimes the textbox will not keep the previous formatting
> that the old text had. To fix it, sometimes I have to insert a new
> text box and then paste the text in, then reformat that text box...
> but that is very time consuming.

Which version of PPT are you using? PPT 2002 and 2003 have a paste option to
"keep text only" or "keep source formatting" or "use design template
formatting."

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


> "Echo S" wrote:
>
>> Are you working with textboxes or tables or placeholders (where it
>> says "click to add text")? I can't quite tell from your post which
>> it is you're working with.
>>
>> If you'll be more specific about your problem, we may be able to
>> help you find a solution.
>>
>> --
>> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
>> http://www.echosvoice.com
>>
>>
>> "ibyung2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:F04A42F6-5BE2-484D-8942-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> This did not work. I have the same problem and I need to have
>>> bullets on the first slide, but not on most slides. the text in a
>>> table has the first line aligned to the left and all other lines
>>> after that are indented about 4 or 5 characters. Changing the
>>> ruler does not fix this. VERY FRUSTRATING!
>>>
>>> "Bill Dilworth" wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you do not want bullets in the entire presentation, I'd suggest
>>>> changing the master slide. On the Master slide you can turn off
>>>> the bullets and change the ruler settings to reflect what you need
>>>> from the placeholders on each of your newly inserted slides.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bill Dilworth
>>>> A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
>>>> Users helping fellow users.
>>>> http://billdilworth.mvps.org
>>>> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
>>>> yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
>>>> yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
>>>> com of our questions.
>>>> www.pptfaq.com
>>>> ..
>>>> ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "CroutonBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>>>> message news:35A52C26-5AB6-4CFD-9F15-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>>> When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default
>>>>> formatting appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I
>>>>> access the ruler or the text
>>>>> box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off.
>>>>> Selecting bullets will line up the text, but I do not want
>>>>> bullets, and this issue is
>>>>> making it impossible to accurately display important text.
>>>>> PLEASE HELP

I am having the same problem within a text box. What I've been forced to do
is to create a new text box for the parts of the text that are not bullet
points, because if I move the indent marker, it changes the indents for all
the bullets. This is a pain. I'm just glad to see that I'm not the only
person in the universe who is having this problem.

"Echo S" wrote:

> ibyung2 wrote:
> > I am not working with placeholders. This happens in a cell that I am
> > typing text, within a new table.
>
> So when you type in a table cell, the first line of the text doesn't indent,
> but lines below it do? In other words, you have a hanging indent that you'd
> like to get rid of?
>
> Clicking in the table cell and dragging the indent marker (the top one on
> the bottom part of the ruler, to be exact) should resolve it. I'm not sure
> if you tried that or not, because the original post here was talking about
> changing the indents in the placeholder on the slide master, not in a table
> cell.
>
> That said, I can't seem to force a table here to default to a bad indent. If
> I add a bullet point to the text in the table, PPT does pick up the bullet
> point I used in the placeholder on this master slide, but it doesn't seem to
> pick up the indent settings. This is in PPT 2003. What version of PPT are
> you using? This isn't a table that's been inserted or copy/pasted from Word,
> is it?
>
> > Also, if I copy and paste a slide, and then go and get text from
> > another document, then paste it in that existing text box of the new
> > slide, sometimes the textbox will not keep the previous formatting
> > that the old text had. To fix it, sometimes I have to insert a new
> > text box and then paste the text in, then reformat that text box...
> > but that is very time consuming.
>
> Which version of PPT are you using? PPT 2002 and 2003 have a paste option to
> "keep text only" or "keep source formatting" or "use design template
> formatting."
>
> --
> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
> http://www.echosvoice.com
>
>
> > "Echo S" wrote:
> >
> >> Are you working with textboxes or tables or placeholders (where it
> >> says "click to add text")? I can't quite tell from your post which
> >> it is you're working with.
> >>
> >> If you'll be more specific about your problem, we may be able to
> >> help you find a solution.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
> >> http://www.echosvoice.com
> >>
> >>
> >> "ibyung2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:F04A42F6-5BE2-484D-8942-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>> This did not work. I have the same problem and I need to have
> >>> bullets on the first slide, but not on most slides. the text in a
> >>> table has the first line aligned to the left and all other lines
> >>> after that are indented about 4 or 5 characters. Changing the
> >>> ruler does not fix this. VERY FRUSTRATING!
> >>>
> >>> "Bill Dilworth" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> If you do not want bullets in the entire presentation, I'd suggest
> >>>> changing the master slide. On the Master slide you can turn off
> >>>> the bullets and change the ruler settings to reflect what you need
> >>>> from the placeholders on each of your newly inserted slides.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Bill Dilworth
> >>>> A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
> >>>> Users helping fellow users.
> >>>> http://billdilworth.mvps.org
> >>>> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
> >>>> yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
> >>>> yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
> >>>> com of our questions.
> >>>> www.pptfaq.com
> >>>> ..
> >>>> ..
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> "CroutonBoy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> >>>> message news:35A52C26-5AB6-4CFD-9F15-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>>>> When adding text boxes to any of my presentations, the default
> >>>>> formatting appears to be a hanging indent. However, when I
> >>>>> access the ruler or the text
> >>>>> box formatting, there is nothing I can do to turn this off.
> >>>>> Selecting bullets will line up the text, but I do not want
> >>>>> bullets, and this issue is
> >>>>> making it impossible to accurately display important text.
> >>>>> PLEASE HELP
>
>
>
>

You know, all these questions piling on the same thread might actually be
different issues. We've got one person talking about a placeholder, another
talking about a table cell, and a third talking about a (manual, I assume)
textbox. While they may all be related, they may also not be the same,
either.

In your case, use the "increase indent" button on the toolbar to "demote"
your second-level bullets. Then you'll see two sets of indent caret markers
on the ruler, and you can adjust each. Hold down the CTRL button while you
drag the markers to give yourself more control.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com



dusty wrote:
> I am having the same problem within a text box. What I've been forced
> to do is to create a new text box for the parts of the text that are
> not bullet points, because if I move the indent marker, it changes
> the indents for all the bullets. This is a pain. I'm just glad to see
> that I'm not the only person in the universe who is having this
> problem.
>

OK, let me simplify. I have no bullets or numbers in my Power Point slide
show. I am copying and pasting text from another document. Sometimes if I
paste the text into a text box, the indent caret markers work sometimes, and
they do not work other times.

I have made a 25k test doc showing this problem. One text box in the slide
works correctly , the other does not. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS! If anyone
wants the test doc to see the problem, please email me at (E-Mail Removed).

Any new ideas?

"Echo S" wrote:

> You know, all these questions piling on the same thread might actually be
> different issues. We've got one person talking about a placeholder, another
> talking about a table cell, and a third talking about a (manual, I assume)
> textbox. While they may all be related, they may also not be the same,
> either.
>
> In your case, use the "increase indent" button on the toolbar to "demote"
> your second-level bullets. Then you'll see two sets of indent caret markers
> on the ruler, and you can adjust each. Hold down the CTRL button while you
> drag the markers to give yourself more control.
>
> --
> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
> http://www.echosvoice.com
>
>
>
> dusty wrote:
> > I am having the same problem within a text box. What I've been forced
> > to do is to create a new text box for the parts of the text that are
> > not bullet points, because if I move the indent marker, it changes
> > the indents for all the bullets. This is a pain. I'm just glad to see
> > that I'm not the only person in the universe who is having this
> > problem.
> >
>
>
>

I think it depends on the formatting of the original text.

I do have another idea, though. Double-click the textbox and go to the Text
tab in the Format Textbox dialog. What is the text anchor point set to? If
it's one of the "centered" options, you may have difficulty getting the text
to align flush left.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

ibyung2 wrote:
> OK, let me simplify. I have no bullets or numbers in my Power Point
> slide show. I am copying and pasting text from another document.
> Sometimes if I paste the text into a text box, the indent caret
> markers work sometimes, and they do not work other times.
>
> I have made a 25k test doc showing this problem. One text box in the
> slide works correctly , the other does not. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND
> THIS! If anyone wants the test doc to see the problem, please email
> me at (E-Mail Removed).
>
> Any new ideas?
>
> "Echo S" wrote:
>
>> You know, all these questions piling on the same thread might
>> actually be different issues. We've got one person talking about a
>> placeholder, another talking about a table cell, and a third talking
>> about a (manual, I assume) textbox. While they may all be related,
>> they may also not be the same, either.
>>
>> In your case, use the "increase indent" button on the toolbar to
>> "demote" your second-level bullets. Then you'll see two sets of
>> indent caret markers on the ruler, and you can adjust each. Hold
>> down the CTRL button while you drag the markers to give yourself
>> more control.
>>
>> --
>> Echo [MS PPT MVP]
>> http://www.echosvoice.com
>>
>>
>>
>> dusty wrote:
>>> I am having the same problem within a text box. What I've been
>>> forced to do is to create a new text box for the parts of the text
>>> that are not bullet points, because if I move the indent marker, it
>>> changes the indents for all the bullets. This is a pain. I'm just
>>> glad to see that I'm not the only person in the universe who is
>>> having this problem.