Indents 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.
That's actually too much space, so I'll 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 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 multilevel list.
You can select the lines you want to change, and
then click Increase Indent Level.
And this is a multilevel 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 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.
So 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 has 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.