How to clear tab from a powerpoint 2000 slide?

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How to remove tabs from a slide (there so many). I can't drag off as the
office help says in the Help file as well as in the Office website.
 
Hi Joy
To drag of a "Tab" you need to make sure that rulers are showing, if not
select ruler from the View menu. Now select the text box containing the tabs
you wish to remove. The ruler bar will then display the tab settings. Move
your mouse pointer to the ruler bar so that the tip of your mouse pointer
just touches the tab setting. Tab setting are black on the ruler bar. Click
and hold down your mouse button. With your mouse button held down drag your
mouse downward into the page or slide. release your mouse button. The tab
will be removed. This works for any Microsoft product.

Another way is to highlight the text box containing the tab you want to
remove then click on the "decrease indent button" found on your menu bar just
right of the text alignment buttons.

Good luck
 
How to remove tabs from a slide (there so many). I can't drag off as the
office help says in the Help file as well as in the Office website.
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I have a hunch you're using the word "tabs" in a different way than I would.

What specifically do you mean by "tab" and why does this plethora of them
bother you?

Do you mean tab settings on the ruler or something else?

I'm having trouble picturing the problem.
 
Hi Joy,

Just a thought ...

When you say Tab, what exactly do you mean? There are many possible
meanings of what that word could be and solving the wrong meaning won't help
you.

Usually in PowerPoint, tab is the indentation tool for text within a text
box. Is this what you meant?

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Thanks for the detailed description on how to use mouse. As some others
mentioned I may be using the wrong terminology. What I want to remove is not
the small black right angle thing. Something like a an arrow one both sides
and for the bottom one there is support like thing also. (What should I call
that nasty things. If I move indentation changes. I can move them around. But
I want to remove them completely. There so many so that I can't format my
slide properly. Is there any way to clear those ruler' things?
 
May be it is not called 'tab', but I don't know what the hell to call those
nasty things which somehow indentation (is that a right word). It is
something like a wedge on the ruler. There are so many. I want to remove
them.
 
I found that it is called 'hanging indent' I (equal number are lying in the
bottom of the ruler too). There are so many. How to get rid of them.
 
May be it is not called 'tab', but I don't know what the hell to call those
nasty things which somehow indentation (is that a right word). It is
something like a wedge on the ruler. There are so many. I want to remove
them.
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OK, I think we're clear on what they are. How many are there? Normally there'll
be up to five at top/bottom of the ruler bar.

They're simply showing you where the indents for your text blocks are set (and
giving you a way to change it). They don't print and don't appear in slide
shows, so I don't quite understand the problem. You can always choose View,
Ruler and turn the ruler off altogether if you like.
 
If you "promote" your bullet points, they'll disappear. You can do this by
placing your cursor between the text and the bullet point in question (at
the beginning of the text, in other words) and using SHIFT+Tab to move them
to the left. Or you can use the "decrease indent" icon on your formatting
toolbar to move them.

Then use line spacing and font size to change the font size of the text if
necessary. If you need to move the text over to the right, you can do this
by moving the hanging indent carats on the ruler. (Hold down your CTRL
button while you do this so you have more control over them.) I find that
many of my clients hit TAB to decrease the size of the text in placeholders.
They don't realize that what they're really doing is "demoting" the text to
the next lowest level in the outline.
 
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