Easy newbie questions:

[forbes]

These I'm sure will be super easy for you guys to answer

1. I set my fonts in the slide master, but when ever I insert a text
box in my presentation, the font is Times New Roman 24; not what I
selected.

2. How do you increase the space between the bullet and first line of
text? I'm sure there is a better way then pressing the space bar. Plus,
when I do it that way, multiple lines of text do not line up.

3. Disappearing text in ouline view. Sometimes I have just the title
text; and sometimes the text of the whole slide appears? Why does some
text appear and others don't?

If you can remember any other "Gotchas" that tripped you up when you
were just starting with PowerPoint, let me know. The program works so
differently than anything else in the Office suite, that I'm constantly
scratching my head.

TIA
Kim

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

1. When you add a new text box using the Drawing tools, it does not follow
the master (as you have noticed). Click on the edge of your text box (so no
text is selected and your cursor is not flashing in the middle of the text
box, but the text box is selected). Choose Font from the Format menu and
check the box for Default for New Objects.

2. Go to the View menu and be sure that Ruler is checked (if it isn't
select it). When you click on a line of text, you will see two little
doohickeys on the left side of the ruler. The top one is the first line
indent (you probably want to leave that alone). The bottom one has two
parts (a pentagon on top of a square). Drag the pentagon to the right or
left to increase or decrease the indent of all lines but the first (include
the space between the bullet and the first line).

3. Outline view only shows text from placeholders (those funny textboxes
that are already there when you go to a slide but say Click here to add
text). When you add your own textboxes, they do not appear in the outline.

--David


--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[forbes]

Thanks David

 

[ibyung2]

How do you set the tabs or indents inside of a cell, which is a table that
was inserted in the presentation?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Go to the View menu and choose Ruler. When you click in a cell of the
table, you should be able to set the tabs and indents for that cell in the
ruler.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/