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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / February 2006setting default indents in a text box
How do I set default indents in a text box so that subsequent text boxes will have the newly set indents? Adjust the text box on the Master Slide. Then all new text boxes, created from the Master Slide text boxes, will have the same formatting. Go to VIEW >> MASTER >> SLIDE MASTER  SignatureTroy Chollar TLC Creative Services << Microsoft MVP, PowerPoint >> The PowerPoint Blog @ www.tlccreative.com/blog > How do I set default indents in a text box so that subsequent text boxes > will > have the newly set indents? Thanks for the quick response Troy, but I have tried your suggestion and the changes are not persistant. When I bring up another text box even on the master, the changes are not there. > How do I set default indents in a text box so that subsequent text boxes will > have the newly set indents? Are you using textboxes (placeholders) where it says "click to add text," or are you clicking on the text tool on the Drawing toolbar and creating manual textboxes? SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP]http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast) http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8 > Thanks for the quick response Troy, but I have tried your suggestion and > the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> will >> have the newly set indents? Hey Echo, Free form text boxes from either the drawing tool bar or the insert button. Boxes are varying size shapes but I want a "fixed" indent and the default setting is too much > Are you using textboxes (placeholders) where it says "click to add text," or > are you clicking on the text tool on the Drawing toolbar and creating manual [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >> will > >> have the newly set indents? As Echo and Troy mention, this is pretty easy to do when you're working with placeholder text. If you want to set indent defaults for regular text boxes ... well ... best advice I can give you is find something else to want instead. PowerPoint doesn't want to play along. Instead, create a text box, add "dummy" text at each indent level, format it as desired, then copy/paste it to other slides as needed. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Thanks Steve, I figured powerpoint doesn't want to play but it sure makes things hard when you want common indents on free form text boxes of varying sizes and shapes are used throughout apresentation. Gotta do it ugly and reset each separately > As Echo and Troy mention, this is pretty easy to do when you're working with > placeholder text. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Yeah. You can set the first one by turning on the ruler and dragging the caret to the appropriate spot. (Press CTRL while dragging to give your self more control over the placement.) Then right-click and choose Set Autoshape Defaults. After that, you'll want to draw a line, give it a color, and choose Set Autoshape Defaults again, otherwise your real autoshapes (squares, lines, circles) will have no fill and no line, so they'll be invisible when you first draw them! SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP]http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast) http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8 > Thanks Steve, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> PPTools: www.pptools.com >> ================================================ > I figured powerpoint doesn't want to play but it sure makes things hard when > you want common indents on free form text boxes of varying sizes and shapes > are used throughout apresentation. Gotta do it ugly and reset each separately Another trick: start with a text placeholder, duplicate it (Edit, Duplicate) That gives you a plain text box with the same attributes as your text placeholder. Or get one formatted the way you want and use the Formatting paintbrush to pick up its formatting and apply it to other text boxes. Ah. Or there's ShapeStyles. http://shapestyles.pptools.com It'll let you grab the styling from one text box, save it as a style, then apply it to any other text boxes you like, one click. The free demo lets you create up to five styles. PowerPoint's a bit weird about applying text formatting to text that isn't there ... enter your text first, then apply the style. > > As Echo and Troy mention, this is pretty easy to do when you're working with > > placeholder text. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Hey Steve, The style paintbrush does not pick up the changed indents as it remains at default settings. It does pick up all other text box attributes Thanks Jeff > > I figured powerpoint doesn't want to play but it sure makes things hard when > > you want common indents on free form text boxes of varying sizes and shapes [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Hey Steve, > > The style paintbrush does not pick up the changed indents as it remains at > default settings. Actually, it does, but it follows its own odd set of rules. Plain text boxes don't normally indent the way placeholder text does. If you press tab, you get a tab, not an indent. If you use AltShift+Rightarrow to indent the text, then when you apply the format with the format painter, it works. You also need to pick up the formatting of the text BOX, not the text in it. Click in the text box then press ESC, THEN pick up the formatting with the format brush. Intuitive? No ... I never promised intuitive. <g> >It does pick up all other text box attributes > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ You are THE Man! It works just as advertised and so very easy to understand! Thanks for all the assist. Next time I have a drink with Uncle Bill I will sing your praises. > > Hey Steve, > > [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > You are THE Man! It works just as advertised and so very easy to understand! Waitaminnit ... you think this is easy to understand??? Dude ... that's scary! ;-) But as long as it makes some kind of sense to ya, we're good. > Thanks for all the assist. Next time I have a drink with Uncle Bill I will > sing your praises. [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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