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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / August 2008paragraph spacing tools in PowerPoint 2007
what happened to the increase/decrease paragraph spacing tools in PowerPoint 2007 the facility provided home/paragraph/line spacing/options is to cumbersome and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface!  SignatureRoger I am not sure why you say it is too many clicks. If you want one of the pre-sets, it works just like any other part of the ribbon (click and drag to select what you want.) If you want a particular setting that is different than the presets, it works pretty much the way it always has in Word. SignatureKathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived > what happened to the increase/decrease paragraph spacing tools in > PowerPoint > 2007 > > the facility provided home/paragraph/line spacing/options is to cumbersome > and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface! hi Kathy the point is 1, 1.5, 2 lines etc is fine for word but in powerpoint you want to be much more specific. the old facility you could click up and down in minute increments to get the look you want, now you have to suck it and see. even with the paragraph tool on the QAT it is difficult, there is no preview, and if you want spacing other than increments of 6 pixels you have to type min the # with trial an error. for such an important feature i hope MS will quickly at least restore the previous functionality, there are less usefull features on the ribon that could be downgraded. if you could incorporate the new preview features it would be great. i hope the next release will allow us to customise ribons as we could for toolbars. SignatureRoger > I am not sure why you say it is too many clicks. If you want one of the > pre-sets, it works just like any other part of the ribbon (click and drag to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > the facility provided home/paragraph/line spacing/options is to cumbersome > > and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface! > what happened to the increase/decrease paragraph spacing tools in PowerPoint > 2007 > > the facility provided home/paragraph/line spacing/options is to cumbersome > and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface! Getting to it isn't so bad, but it's not live AND the Preview button we used to have is gone ... that's really unfortunate. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ If you put the Paragraph icon on your QAT, it will be much easier. (I completely agree that it's a PITA to get to, so shat's what I did. Don't put just "line spacing" on your QAT because it just opens the dropdown thing.) SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > what happened to the increase/decrease paragraph spacing tools in > PowerPoint > 2007 > > the facility provided home/paragraph/line spacing/options is to cumbersome > and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface! > If you put the Paragraph icon on your QAT, it will be much easier. (I > completely agree that it's a PITA to get to, so shat's what I did. I'll just stare at this then delete it. I won't even hit the reply button, I'll just giggle a while and the [Get AWAY!] pesky cat where was I? Oh. I'll just NO DON'T JUMP ON THAT KEY!! well thanks for the tip, but it is much inferior to how it was. i will reply to Kathy too SignatureRoger > If you put the Paragraph icon on your QAT, it will be much easier. (I > completely agree that it's a PITA to get to, so shat's what I did. Don't put [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > the facility provided home/paragraph/line spacing/options is to cumbersome > > and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface! I agree. The dialog itself sucks. I'm all for consistency when it makes sense, but I don't appreciate getting a rewarmed Word paragraph and line spacing dialog (and without a preview button or modeless "real-time" behavior). It definitely needs work. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > well thanks for the tip, but it is much inferior to how it was. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> > cumbersome >> > and far too many clicks for the new try and see interface! I don't understand why Microsoft would just REMOVE this feature and not allow people to re-add it? This was one of the buttons on the formatting toolbar by default I believe in Office2003, and to just get rid of it and not let people re-add it is just incomprehensible. Has anyone found a way to highlight an area of text and increase/decrease the spacing in steps? Going through a separate dialog is going to be extremely time consuming and troublesome. I agree that the line spacing in PPT 2007 was very poorly designed. I know others who miss the quick line spacing tool, too. (Personally, I found it too heavy-handed, so I avoided it.) The line spacing dialog would benefit from live preview so we don't have to close the dialog each time to check our changes. It would also be nice if it worked like the old PPT line spacing and not be just a leftover from Word. For example, I much prefer lines for a before/after space setting as opposed to points, because we change point sizes much more often in PPT and my much bigger differences than anyone ever does in Word. You can add the Paragraph tool to the QAT. That way you can at least get to the Paragraph / Indents and Spacing dialog with one click. Of course, using the dialog launcher (small box in lower right corner) of the Paragraph group does the same thing. Maybe that helps a little. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx >I don't understand why Microsoft would just REMOVE this feature and not >allow [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the spacing in steps? Going through a separate dialog is going to be > extremely time consuming and troublesome. |
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