Format paragraph

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Tom Toews

Using 2003, I need to format a paragraph with a hanging indent. Is this
possible?

Tom
 
I found the ruler but what I am looking for is to be able to adjust the
indenting for individual paragraphs. It seems the ruler only lets you adjust
for the entire box.

Tom
 
Hello Tom,

The ruler indent formatting will apply to the entire text box. Therefore, if
you want different settings, create new text boxes.

Debbie
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - If you are using Office 2003, you should install this
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello Tom,

PowerPoint does not have the ability to specify different ruler settings
(indent/tabs) for each paragraph in a text box. For each text box you can
specific a unique indentation pair for each of 5 outline levels. Tab stops
are the same for each paragraph in the same text box (regardless of outline
level). So, if you want to have two paragraphs with different indenting,
they need to be set to different outline levels using the promote/demote
tools. If this won't get you to the end result you are looking for, another
workaround is to have each paragraph in it's own text box (which means that
not all text boxes will, by default, follow the text formatting from the
slide master).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that PowerPoint
should the ability to specify unique ruler settings (indents, tabs) for
each paragraph in a text box, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR
OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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