indenting problem with bullets

[Guest]

Where you have text that includes both plain and bulleted
paragraphs/lines, the indenting for the bullets flows over
onto the plain text (ie if you have a few lines above the
bulletted lines, the second line onwards get indented in
to the same point that the bullet text start from). The
ruler tabs apply to all the text in the box - is there any
way round this other than using separate text boxes for
eac section?

 

[Echo S]

Have you tried turning on View/Ruler and holding down the CTRL key while
dragging the various indent carats? You may come up with something that
works for your situation. Otherwise, you'll need to use separate
textboxes...

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to specify different ruler settings
(indent/tabs) for each paragraph in a text box. For each text box you can
specific a unique indentation pair for each of 5 outline levels
(promote/demote). Tab stops are the same for every paragraph in the same
text box (regardless of outline level). So, if you want to have two
paragraphs with different indenting, they need to be set to different
outline levels using the promote/demote tools. If this won't get you to the
end result you are looking for, another workaround is to have each
paragraph in it's own text box (which means that not all text boxes will,
by default, follow the text formatting from the slide master).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should the ability to specify unique ruler settings (indents, tabs) for
each paragraph in a text box, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR
OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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