different indents for separate paragraphs

[Kyle]

I've searched the archive, I've searched PPT's help file, and found no
acceptable solution to a dilemma I am experiencing.

I'm the pastor of a church where we use PowerPoint for our worship
services. We project everything: hymns, multimedia, prayers, Scripture
readings...and those last two is where we run into problems. The text
for prayers and Scripture readings will not fit onto one slide.

For reasons I won't take the time to go into here, using paragraph
spacing to separate paragraphs is insufficient (indenting is more
helpful according to our vision-impaired members). When a paragraph
flows onto the next slide, the first line of that second slide is
indented, even when it's the middle of a sentence.

There appears, from what I've read, to be no workaround for this, no
way to selectively indent or not indent paragraphs. And, no, I don't
want to go to the excruciating effort of having to make two separate
text boxes on every text slide that have to be aligned properly.
That's needlessly time consuming, and a pointless bug in the
application that one would think could be addressed if every other
application in the Office suite has the capability.

Please, someone, tell me I'm wrong. Tell me there's a secret bit
buried somewhere in PowerPoint that will allow the "flowed" paragraph
to not be indented on the second slide. Help!

 

[Ellen Finkelstein]

Kyle,

A new feature of PowerPoint 2007 lets you change the indenting by paragraph
within one text placeholder. So the top paragraph could be undented (flush
left) since it's a continuation, and the next paragraph could be indented. Of
course, you need to select the text and adjust the indenting; the ruler is
the easiest place to do that.

I'm not sure that that method is easier than duplicating a placeholder and
giving each one different indents.

Ellen