indentation and lime spacing are two
important elements that you can manage
in your powerpoints presentation that
can change the way text on a slide
appears when used wisely both can have a
significant impacts on the look of your
slides in an earlier lesson we learned
how to insert a bulleted and numbered
list and format the bullets in various
ways in addition to creating a one level
list such as this one powerpoints gives
you the ability to create an indented or
subordinate list within a list on slide
four at the very bottom we have an
indented list here with print TV and
online on slide 10 we have a list of
types of paid and unpaid leave I want to
add some information that lets employees
know the number of sick days they earn I
could type it here like this or I could
add it to the bulleted list beneath sick
it would make sense to indent this
bullet so it appears and dips it beneath
the sick leave to create an indent it
lists place the cursor at the starts of
the line that you want to indent then on
the Home tab in the paragraph group
click increase list level and now you
can see that this indent is the text and
bullet if you click the increase list a
level command again the bullet and text
will indent even further
and you can continue to do this and see
that there are multiple list levels to
move text back to a lesson
that level in the list place the cursor
at the start of the line and click
decrease list level you can do the same
thing here for vacation just place the
cursor at the start of the line that you
want to indent and click the increase
list level command now while you are on
the indented list if you press ENTER the
new bullets will appear as parts of the
indented list a common example of
changing an indent is when you want to
adjust a space which one a bullet in a
list and the text that goes with it you
may want to add more space between the
bullets in the text or have less space
to do this you'll need the power points
ruler it is the easiest way to adjust
the indents if your ruler is not active
select the View tab and then click the
ruler checkbox in the show/hide group
there are three different markers that
appear on the ruler for the selected
text box this is the first-line indent
marker it kind of looks like an
upside-down triangle it indicates the
position of the actual bullets to change
the position of the bullets place the
cursor in the line of text connects it
with a bullet you want to move or for
multiple bullets select the text now
just click and drag the first-line
indent marker to change the position of
the bullet and then release the mouse
button at the desired location as you
can see you can move the bullets closer
or farther away from the text I'm
actually going to put this back to the
original position
triangle is the hanging indent marker
its indicates the position of the line
of text to change a position of the text
we just need to place our cursor in the
line we want to change or select the
lines then click and drag the hanging
indent marker now just release the mouse
button see how easy that was
now this rectangle beneath the hanging
indent marker is a left indent marker it
adjusts both the first line and hanging
indent markers at the same time and
maintains the current spacing it shows
the indent position of the text in the
list to move the bullets and text at the
same time and maintain the relationship
between them just click and drag the
rectangle and release it at the desired
location see how the markers moved at
the same time on the ruler check out the
second part of this lesson to learn more
about indentation in line spacing