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in dense and line spacing are two things
that you can use to control how the text
looks on the slide and you can adjust
them whether you're using 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 then press the tab
key and you can see that this only
affected the first line
so if you add a first line indent to
each paragraph on the 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 the
indents and this affects all of the
lines first I'm going to select the
paragraphs that I want to change and I
want to push the lines to the right to
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
actually too much space so I'll click
decrease list level
the other thing to notice is that when
you changed the indent the font size
changes too so if you want the text to
be a specific size you may need to
readjust it
you can also use these methods to change
the indentation on a bulleted or
numbered list one reason why you might
want to do this is to create a
multi-level list you can select the
lines that you want to change and then
click increase indent level
and this is a multi-level list because
these items form a kind of sub list that
is organized under this line now to make
these lines stand out a little bit more
we can just change the bullet type
so having a different bullet here really
helps to show that these lines are
together and that 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 bit 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 a
bulleted list you can just move the
first line 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 a
lot 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 you can select the paragraphs
and on the Home tab go to the line
spacing command
and 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 next to line spacing choose multiple
and then you can just type in the value
that you want here
while we're here we can adjust the
paragraph spacing which is the extra
spacing before and after each paragraph
so I'm going to change the spacing after
to 12 points
this is spread out the lines 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 so the indents
and line spacing can really make the
difference between a presentation that
looks pretty good and one that looks
polished and professional light that you
just saw
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