Paragraph indents can be applied to text placeholders, text boxes, and AutoShapes by dragging indent markers on the ruler when a text object is selected.
To display the ruler for a text object, choose View, Ruler, and then activate the text object as if to edit the text.
Bulleted text always uses a hanging indent. Changing the distance between the top indent marker and the bottom indent marker on the ruler controls the amount of space between a bullet and its text.
Indent settings can be applied to text placeholders on master slides as well as on individual slides.
Indent and tab settings apply only to the selected text object and all the text in the text box. To create more than one type of indent or tab setting, you must create a new text object.
To set tabs within a text object, activate the object, choose the type of tab you want, and then click the ruler at the point where you want to position the tabs.
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Change the position of tab markers by dragging them across the ruler. Remove tab markers by dragging them off the ruler.
Line spacing and the amount of space between paragraphs are controlled using the Line Spacing dialog box. Unlike tab and indent settings, line and paragraph spacing can be applied to one or more paragraphs in a text object, or to the entire object.
PowerPoint’s grid is a matrix of dots that can be used to help draw, align, and position objects. The spacing of grid dots can be adjusted from 1/24" (0.042") to 2".
The Snap objects to grid feature automatically aligns the edges of objects to grid dots, making it easy to align objects relative to each other.
When the Snap objects to grid feature is turned on, moving guides automatically aligns them with grid dots.
Pressing [Alt] while drawing, moving, or resizing an object temporarily turns off the Snap objects to grid feature.
Guides are horizontal and vertical dotted lines that are used to help align and position objects on a slide. Up to eight horizontal and eight vertical guides can be displayed on a slide. They can be moved freely while you work.
Text object settings, such as the text anchor point, word-wrapping, automatically resizing a text object to fit its text, and text object margins are set by using the Text Box tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box.
The text anchor point defines the position of text within a text object. Text can be anchored to the top, middle, bottom, top center, middle center, or bottom center of an object.
Page setup options control the size of slides. They can be sized for 35 mm slides, overhead transparencies, on-screen display with a computer screen, or various paper sizes. Also, slides can have landscape or portrait page orientation.
The method of delivering a presentation should be determined before creating the presentation. Changing the size or orientation of a presentation after the fact can sometimes require tedious changes to the layout of individual slides.
Notes and handout masters can be customized in a way similar to customizing slide masters and title masters. The only difference is that slide placeholders on the handout master cannot be moved or resized.
When placing text boxes or pictures on a handout master, care must be taken to make sure that the objects do not conflict with the slide placeholder layouts.
