Indent marker jumps off screen

[ctobola]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Power PC I typically use several levels of bulleted lists in presentations.

Lately, certain text boxes seem to exhibit bizarre behavior.

When I try to indent a line of text, the words seem to disappear and a large vertical space is inserted in the text block.

What's happening is that the "left indent marker" gets pushed FAR off the screen on the right side.

In fact, it gets pushed so far to the right that the text is broken into one character per line (which is why so much vertical space appears.)

Sometimes, I can maneuver the cursor over to the misaligned text and drag the indent marker back where it belongs. Sometimes, I just have to copy/paste in a text box with correct formatting.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any menu (like the Format Paragraph menu in Word) that allows me to correct the marker position.

Is there a quick way to fix this... or to avoid it altogether?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor:
Power PC I typically use several levels of bulleted lists in
presentations.

Lately, certain text boxes seem to exhibit bizarre behavior.

When I try to indent a line of text, the words seem to disappear and
a large vertical space is inserted in the text block.

What's happening is that the "left indent marker" gets pushed FAR
off the screen on the right side.

In fact, it gets pushed so far to the right that the text is broken
into one character per line (which is why so much vertical space
appears.)

Sometimes, I can maneuver the cursor over to the misaligned text and
drag the indent marker back where it belongs. Sometimes, I just have
to copy/paste in a text box with correct formatting.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any menu (like the Format
Paragraph menu in Word) that allows me to correct the marker
position.

Is there a quick way to fix this... or to avoid it altogether?

I'm not sure how it happened in the first place or how to avoid it, but
I've cobbled you up a bit of VBA code that'll fix the selected text box
in one of two ways; choose whichever works best for you.

Indents: zeroing them out, resetting them etc.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01039.htm

 

[Tony_Carter]

> I'm not sure how it happened in the first place or how to avoid it, but
> I've cobbled you up a bit of VBA code that'll fix the selected text box
> in one of two ways; choose whichever works best for you.
>
> Indents: zeroing them out, resetting them etc.
> http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01039.htm
>
>

Will that work on Office 2008 for the Mac? I thought MS in their infinite wisdom had removed this function from the Mac side?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm not sure how it happened in the first place or how to avoid it, but
I've cobbled you up a bit of VBA code that'll fix the selected text box
in one of two ways; choose whichever works best for you.

Indents: zeroing them out, resetting them etc.
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01039.htm

Will that work on Office 2008 for the Mac? I thought MS in their
infinite wisdom had removed this function from the Mac side?[/QUOTE]

No and they did. In that order. ;-)

But the OP specified Office 2004.