left and right text justify

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Hello.
I develop powerpoint presentations weekly for our church projection system.
I have a recurring problem that I'd like to get to the bottom of. On most
of my text screens, I am able to take the top line (contains the name of the
song and verse number) and make it left justified. The remaining text on
the screen I like to be center justified. No problem. It works and looks
great. But, on a few of my "stinker" slides, it will NOT allow me to do
that. Even if I only highlight the top line and make it left justified, it
will change the entire slide to left justified.
Can anyone tell me why that is so?

Thanks in advance,
Dave
 
I develop powerpoint presentations weekly for our church projection system.
I have a recurring problem that I'd like to get to the bottom of. On most
of my text screens, I am able to take the top line (contains the name of the
song and verse number) and make it left justified. The remaining text on
the screen I like to be center justified. No problem. It works and looks
great. But, on a few of my "stinker" slides, it will NOT allow me to do
that. Even if I only highlight the top line and make it left justified, it
will change the entire slide to left justified.
Can anyone tell me why that is so?
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Is the top line in a separate text box in both cases?

If so, select the one that's giving you trouble, choose Format, Placeholder (or
Shape, or whatever the last item says). In the formatting dialog box, click the
Text Box tab. Check the Text Anchor Point - my guess is that it's set to
Middle Centered instead of Middle.
 
Steve,
That was not it, but you pointed me in the right direction. I'd never even
been to that menu page before in Powerpoint 2002. It turned out to be the
problem slides did not have "Word wrap text in AutoShape" selected. Once I
selected it, I could format the slide like I wanted.
By the way, no, there are not 2 separate text boxes. Only one.

Thank you very much.
Dave
 
Steve,
That was not it, but you pointed me in the right direction. I'd never even
been to that menu page before in Powerpoint 2002. It turned out to be the
problem slides did not have "Word wrap text in AutoShape" selected. Once I
selected it, I could format the slide like I wanted.
By the way, no, there are not 2 separate text boxes. Only one.
Click to expand...

Ah, it gets tricky applying different formatting to different bits of text within a single box.
Sometimes it's easier in the long run to break it into several boxes.

But since it's working ok for you already, we'll declare it un-broke so we can non-fix it.
 
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