changing bullet format in text areas

[Guest]

Hi!

First to mention: I know how to change bullet formatting in individual cases
and bullet formatting via slide master. However, when creating a new slide
and deleting the placeholders created automatically, then creating a new text
box and writing text in it, the bullet format chosen by me in the slide
master does not work anymore. How can I change the bullet formatting used in
each new text box?

Thanks for any answers!

 

[Luc]

jrachor,
Create your text box just as you want it with your bullets formatted to your
needs. Then Right
click on the box and choose Format Text Box, at the bottom of the dialog
choose box Default for new objects, hit OK. Now all textboxes should be
formatted in the way for the current presentation.

 

[Guest]

Hi Luc,

thank you for this hint. Unfortunately I have the feeling that absolutely
nothing changes, when I do this. No alignment, listing format, etc. is
recognized in new text boxes. What can be the reason for this - do you have
any ideas?

Thanks for any further help!
Juergen

 

[Luc]

jrachor,
Right click on the formatted box and choose default AutoShapes. Does that
help?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi!

First to mention: I know how to change bullet formatting in individual cases
and bullet formatting via slide master. However, when creating a new slide
and deleting the placeholders created automatically, then creating a new text
box and writing text in it, the bullet format chosen by me in the slide
master does not work anymore.

Right, because by deleting the placeholders you're telling PPT that you don't
WANT to use the master formatting for the text.

If you want the master to control the formatting, you must add your text to the
existing placeholder on each slide. If you want to modify them afterwards, you
can certainly do that.

 

[Guest]

This in combination with Steve's comments helped, yet it only keeps some
settings, but not the bullet formatting ...

 

[Luc]

jrachor,
I think I misunderstood your question, I was under the impression you meant
you wanted to format textboxes you draw yourself and not the standard
placeholders, which you delete for some reason. As Steve said you can format
the bullets in the master placeholder and this will be applied to all slides
that use that master.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

This in combination with Steve's comments helped, yet it only keeps some
settings, but not the bullet formatting ...

Bullets/indents in regular text boxes (as opposed to placeholders) can be very
ill-behaved. You might want to try our ShapeStyles add-in. The free demo at
http://www.pptools.com/shapestyles/ will let you create and use up to five
styles.

You can create a text box with fonts, colors, bullets etc. as you want them then
save it as a style. Then you can apply the same style to any other text box *so
long as you first select all the text in the text box*.

 

[Guest]

Luc, Steve, thank you again for your help! I tried out Steve's addin and it
definitely worked fine. Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Luc, Steve, thank you again for your help! I tried out Steve's addin and it
definitely worked fine. Thanks!

Cool ... thanks for taking the time to check it out and report back.