Bullets will not move when I hit tab or move the ruler points

[David Maerzke]

When I hit tab on a bulleted point, only the text indents. The bullet itself
does not go to this second level. It will not move when I move the
first-line indent triangle in the ruler. I'm just getting familiar with
Powerpoint 2003, but am very familiar with office 97. When you press Tab the
Bullet moves along with the Text and changes to the format in the Master
Slide. My Master Slide looks OK, but the Bullets will not go to the Second
Level Format.

David Maerzke

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Are you at the beginning of the line of text when you hit tab? If you
aren't, you need to use the promote and demote buttons to move between the
outline levels.

--
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[Sandy]

In your Formatting Tool Bar, near the top of your screen (depends on how your
interface is set up) you should have a an increase indent and decrease indent
button. Instead of tabbing, click increase indent.

 

[David Maerzke]

I think it's because it has the green circle on the top of the text box to
rotate it. I can't figure out how to change it to the simple edit where
bullets will behave like in the Master Slide layout. There used to be a
little rotate symbol in the drawing toolbar, but it's not there any longer.
You would click on it and it would allow you to rotate objects.
The only way I could figure out how to get the bullet levels to format
properly was to copy in the text box from the Master Slide.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

I think you have created a text box, rather than used a placeholder. Regular
text boxes do not follow the indent settings on the Master slide. You'll
either have to use a placeholder (one of the boxes that says "Click here to
add..."), or you'll have to set up the bullets yourself.
--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[David Maerzke]

It's a presentation I created in Office 97, it used to be a text box with the
bullet outline format working properly. I'm not familiar with a Placeholder
as compared with a Textbox. I'll check this out and see if I can convert the
text boxes into Placeholders or add Placeholders and copy the old Textbox
text into the new Placeholder.
Thanks David

 

[Echo S]

Placeholders are the default textboxes on your slides. They say "click to
add text" (for a text placeholder) or "click to add title" (for a title
placeholder). Placeholders automatically appear on bulleted slide layouts
(Format|Slide Layout|Title and Text layout), and their formatting is
determined by the slide master (View|Master|Slide Master).

"Manual textboxes" are the ones you create by clicking the textbox tool on
your toolbar and then typing on the slide. They do not necessarily use the
same formatting as the placeholders. You can make them do that by copying
one of the slide placeholders and pasting it on a slide. The copy of the
placeholder isn't a placeholder any longer -- it's a regular "manual"
textbox now. Type some text in it, make sure it looks the way you want, and
then right-click it and choose Set Autoshape Defaults. This will make any
new manual textboxes you create with the text tool on the toolbar look like
the slide placeholder. But it may only work for the first bullet level. If
you need more than that, you'll have to look at an add-in such as
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/shapestyles/index.html

Finally, after you've set your manual textbox defaults, you'll want to draw
an actual autoshape (rectangle, oval, etc.) and reset its autoshape
defaults, too. So draw a rectangle on the slide, add line and fill as
desired, then right-click and Set Autoshape Defaults. Do this after you've
set your manual textbox defaults. Just trust me on that one.