Goodwill Community Foundation creating
opportunities for a better life indents
and 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 then 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 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 a little too much
space so I'll just click decrease list
level the other thing to notice is 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 list 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
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 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
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
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 further apart now which
is going to make it easier for the
audience to read the text
in dense and line spacing can really
make the difference between a
presentation that looks pretty good and
one that looks polished and professional