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Won't hold Left justification
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... -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. troy at tlc creative dot com www dot tlccreative dot com ================================== A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP ================================== "-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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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 "Troy @ TLC Creative" wrote in message ... 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... -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. troy at tlc creative dot com www dot tlccreative dot com ================================== A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP ================================== "-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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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." -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "-Steve-Krause-" wrote in message ... 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 "Troy @ TLC Creative" wrote in message ... 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... -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. troy at tlc creative dot com www dot tlccreative dot com ================================== A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP ================================== "-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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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 ... 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... -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. troy at tlc creative dot com www dot tlccreative dot com ================================== A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP ================================== "-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 ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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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 "Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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... -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. troy at tlc creative dot com www dot tlccreative dot com ================================== A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP ================================== "-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 ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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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 ... 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 ... 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... -- Best Regards, Troy Chollar TLC Creative Services, Inc. troy at tlc creative dot com www dot tlccreative dot com ================================== A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP ================================== "-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 ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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