decimal tabulation

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I am currently doing practice exam papers ready to sit my OCR exam in Powerpoint and I have to set up decimal tabulation in a column in a table on a slide. I can't find out how to do this. Is it at all possible? The papers are generic and this could relate to another graphics package

Please help, before next Thursday if possible as that is when I go back to Pitman to practice some more

Many thank
Mandie
 
Which version of PPT?

You can set decimal tabs in PPT by turning on the ruler (View/Ruler) and
then clicking the little black tab specification to the left of the ruler
(looks like an L at first). There's a decimal tab option there. Specify
that, then add your tabs.

However, in a table, I'd imagine you have to use CTRL+Tab to add a tab.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Mandie Dunning said:
Hi

I am currently doing practice exam papers ready to sit my OCR exam in
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Powerpoint and I have to set up decimal tabulation in a column in a table on
a slide. I can't find out how to do this. Is it at all possible? The
papers are generic and this could relate to another graphics package.
 
Mandie Dunning said:
Thanks Echo, but I've tried this and I can't seem to get it to work.
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Ok, but I'm not going to test this in every version of PPT out there. Which
are you using?

Echo
 
Ok, but I'm not going to test this in every version of PPT out there. Which
are you using?
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It's worked as you describe since at least PPT4 and it works that way in
PPT2003. I've used all the others and it never came up missing. I don't think
version is the problem. <g>

Mandie,

If you choose View, Ruler then click within a text box, you'll see the tabstops
for the text box appear on the ruler bar, and at the left side of the ruler,
you'll see the L gadget that Echo mentioned. Click it and it cycles from an L
(left tab) to an inverted T (center tab) to backwards L (right tab) and finally
inverted T with period (bingo, there's your decimal tab).

When you click the ruler, you set a tab of the type that this little indicator
is currently displaying. A tab mark that looks like the indicator appears on
the ruler bar to show you where the tab is.

Type something into the text box then press tab. PPT should tab over to the
first tab you've set. If you press tab at the beginning of the line, it
changes the indent level for the text, a different animal and not what you're
after.

Note that you can have only one set of tabs for the whole text box (rather than
per line/paragraph or however it works in Word). Pity about that.
 
Type something into the text box then press tab. PPT should tab over to the
first tab you've set. If you press tab at the beginning of the line, it
changes the indent level for the text, a different animal and not what you're
after.
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In a table, you have to hold down the CTRL key while hitting the Tab button
in order to create a tab in the table cell as opposed to simply moving to
the next cell.

Other than that, what you said.

Echo
 
Mandie said:
I think it is 2000 but I will check on Thursday when I go back again.
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Ok, thanks.

I checked here in PPT 2000, and it should work as described. In fact,
Steve's given you more explicit instructions later in the thread.

Be sure to hold down your CTRL key while you hit the Tab key to create the
tab in the table.
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint tables are somewhat limited in their formatting, compared to
Word tables. Specifically, you can only specify ruler formatting (indents,
tabs, etc.) for one cell at a time. So, for example, you cannot select a
column in a PowerPoint table and specify the same decimal tab location for
each cell in that column in a single operation but, instead, must repeat
the procedure for each cell in the column.

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In a table, you have to hold down the CTRL key while hitting the Tab button
in order to create a tab in the table cell as opposed to simply moving to
the next cell.

Other than that, what you said.
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Thanks. Being Brian-trained and braindrained, I do tables in Excel. <g>
 
Hi Guy

Thanks for the help, I've managed to do it now. I was omitting the Ctrl before I pressed Tab and it just kept going to the next cell. Thats great, I can now go to Pitman tomorrow and show them how to do it!

Mandie
 
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