In article , -Steve-Krause- wrote:
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.

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. ;-)




Thanks for the information though.

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

Steve

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
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In article , -Steve-Krause- wrote:
Unfortunately I need to have two fonts and two font sizes in that top
box.

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
ENTER and type the text for the second line. That should make voila.

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

"Troy @ TLC Creative" wrote in
message
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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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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
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A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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"-Steve-Krause-" wrote in message
...
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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