Won't hold Left justification

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-Steve-Krause-

I am a new user of powerpoint so I don't know some of the terminology to
describe the problem.

I am trying to make a powerpoint assembly instruction document. I use the
top box for text and below it I insert a picture and use dome of the drawing
tools to make text boxes and arrows that point to places on the
picture...There are two boxes for placing text. The top box says "Click to
add title". I want to use the top box to place some text. I want the text
to have the first line in 18pt Arial and the following lines in 14pt Times
New Roman. I want them to be Left Justified. I remove the bottom box and
insert the picture below the top box.

I enter text in the top box and format as described above. I then Save.
When I open the document again the text is as I entered it with the font and
font size correct, but the text is always Center justified.

What is happening here and how can I solve the problem?

Thanks,
Steve Krause
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Both of the visible text boxes receive there formatting from the Master
Slide. Go to VIEW >> MASTER >> SLIDE MASTER and format the text box with the
position, font, and aligment needed. Note: you cannot specify two font sizes
within this box...
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Unfortunately I need to have two fonts and two font sizes in that top box.
I realize now that the problem is that the Title box forces Center
justification so I've gone back to each of forty slides and copied the text
in to a new text box and then deleted the Title box and then reformated the
text assigning the fonts and sizes and by default the text box is Left
justified.
Took about ten minutes but the mystery is solved.

thanks,
Steve
 
Glad to hear you got it worked out, Steve.

For future reference, you can just set the title placeholder on your master
slide to left justified, and that should apply to the text placed in those
titles. Sometimes, if you've already created the text in the slides
themselves, you'll have to reapply the slide layout in order for the new
settings to "take."
 
Unfortunately I need to have two fonts and two font sizes in that top box.
Click to expand...

From your description, not necessarily. You said you needed the first line to
be one size and the next line to be another, right? So go to View, Master,
Slide Master

Format the top (title placeholder) box as you want it for the first line.
Be sure you set it to Left justification.

Then format the lower box (body text placeholder) as you want it for the second
line of text and move it up so that it's aligned and positioned correctly.

Close the slide master view and add a new slide to your presentation.
In the Outline pane, type in the text you want for the first line, then press
 
When describing my goal I left out a piece of information that makes your
solution not work for me; I use an outline around the text box. I take it
that your solution uses two boxes so that wouldn't work for creating a
single outlined box.

Thanks for the information though.

I have another question relating to this but I will start another thread for
it.

Steve
 
When describing my goal I left out a piece of information that makes your
solution not work for me; I use an outline around the text box. I take it
that your solution uses two boxes so that wouldn't work for creating a
single outlined box.
Click to expand...

Plan B, then:

Skip the title text placeholder
Put your text, both lines, into the Body Text placeholder

Type the first line, hit ENTER, hit TAB to demote it a level, type the second
line.

In the master, you can format up to five levels of text, each with its own
font, color, bullet and indents. Turn on the text ruler and you can drag the
indent detents or whatever the heck they're called to make the first and second
level text justify to the same left point. You may need to hold down CTRL
while you drag them or they won't go past the previous ones.

The above will make no sense whatever to read, but should make the AHA if you
do it while modifying the text. ;-)
 
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