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indents on line spacing are two things
that you can use to control how the text
looks on a slide and you can adjust them
whether you use normal paragraphs or a
bulleted or numbered list if you just
want to quickly add a first line indent
to a paragraph you can put the insertion
point at the beginning of the paragraph
and press the tab key and you can see
that this only affected the first line
of the paragraph so if you add a first
line indent to each paragraph on a slide
it kind of helps them stand out from one
another which can make the text a little
bit easier to read there's another way
to change indents and this affects all
the lines first I'm going to select the
paragraphs I want to change and then I'm
going to push the lines to the right and
add more space between the image and the
text on the Home tab click increase list
level and you can see that the left edge
of the text moves to the right that's
actually a little too much space so I'll
just click decrease list level the other
thing to notice is that when you change
the indent the font size changes too so
if you want the text to be a specific
size you may have to readjust it you can
also use these methods to change the
indentation on a bulleted or numbered
list and one reason you might want to do
this is to create a multi-level list you
can select the lines you want to change
and then click increase indent level and
this is a multi-level list because these
items form kind of a sub list that is
organized under this line now to make
these lines stand out a little bit more
we can change the bullet type having a
different bullet here helps show that
these lines are together and they're on
a different level from the other lines
the only thing I don't like about the
bullets is that they're a little too far
away from the text so I'm going to
fine-tune them using the ruler to do
this go to the View tab and put a check
where it says ruler when you select the
lines you'll be able to see the indent
markers and with bulleted lists you can
just move the hanging indent marker to
control how far the bullet is from the
text I want it to be pretty close to the
text but not too close this can really
make your lists look more polished
now I'm going to go back to the
paragraphs and I'd like to adjust the
spacing in between the lines to open
this up a little bit so you can just
select the paragraphs and on the Home
tab go to the line spacing command you
can choose a line spacing value here but
I'd really like something that's in
between these two values say 1.3 to do
that just go down to line spacing
options and type in the value that you
want here while we're here we can adjust
the paragraph spacing which is the extra
space before and after each paragraph
I'm going to change the spacing after to
12 points
this is spread the lines out a little
bit and you can also see that the
paragraphs are farther apart now which
is going to make it easier for the
audience to read the text indents and
line spacing can really make the
difference between a presentation that
looks pretty good and one that looks
polished and professional
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