problems with formatting text in a text box

[juice pig]

I am trying to put together a presentation. I have quite a few slides that
have text boxes with a lot of text in them. I copy and paste the text into
the text boxes and the top line is left justified but the next few lines are
indented. To make matters worse there is a blank line between the last and
second last lines of text. This (or something like it) happens every time I
copy and paste text into a slide, Is there a formatting setting somewhere
that I dont know of or what? This is driving me batty!

Paul in Marietta

 

[Echo S]

Turn on your rulers (View/Ruler) and then you can drag the indent carets
where you need them. Hold down the CTRL button on your keyboard while you
drag -- that gives you finer control over placement of the carets.

Not sure about the blank line. It might be the difference between a hard
return (Enter) and a soft return (Shift+Enter) at the end of the line in
question. Can you describe what's going on there a little more? If you're
pasting from Word, turn on the paragraph markers there and see if you have a
funky line return or something....

 

[juice pig]

Thanks for your reply! I could not figure out what you were talking about
with the rulers and indent carets but that was not the problem. What you
said about the hard return got me to thinking. I had copied the text from a
web page and pasted it directly into the slide. When that didnt work I
pasted it into a notepad txt file, then copied and pasted from there, That
produced the same results, I looked at the txt file this morning and
realized that the web page formatting had been carried over to the txt file
so I simply rearranged the text and then pasted it. It works great now! If
you had not mentioned the hard return I might never have figured it out.

 

[Echo S]

Thanks for your reply! I could not figure out what you were talking
about with the rulers and indent carets but that was not the problem.
What you said about the hard return got me to thinking. I had copied
the text from a web page and pasted it directly into the slide. When
that didnt work I pasted it into a notepad txt file, then copied and
pasted from there, That produced the same results, I looked at the
txt file this morning and realized that the web page formatting had
been carried over to the txt file so I simply rearranged the text and
then pasted it. It works great now! If you had not mentioned the
hard return I might never have figured it out.

Glad to hear you got it worked out. Thanks for letting us know!

 

[ibyung2]

I have some text boxes that will not allow me to indent. HELP!