WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:15.860 Indents and line spacing are two things that you can use to control how the text looks 00:00:15.860 --> 00:00:17.140 on a slide. 00:00:17.140 --> 00:00:23.520 And you can adjust them whether you use normal paragraphs or a bulleted or numbered list. 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:28.750 If you just want to quickly add a first-line indent to a paragraph, you can put the insertion 00:00:28.750 --> 00:00:33.230 point at the beginning of the paragraph and then press the tab key... 00:00:33.230 --> 00:00:37.240 And you can see that this only affected the first line of the paragraph. 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:41.840 So if you add a first-line indent to each paragraph on a slide, it kind of helps them 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:47.210 stand out from one another, which can make the text a little bit easier to read. 00:00:47.210 --> 00:00:51.159 There's another way to change indents, and this affects all the lines. 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.089 First, I'm going to select the paragraphs I want to change... 00:00:55.089 --> 00:00:59.020 And then I'm going to push the lines to the right to add more space between the image 00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:00.839 and the text... 00:01:00.839 --> 00:01:04.930 On the Home tab, click Increase List Level. 00:01:04.930 --> 00:01:10.270 And you can see that the left edge of the text moves to the right... 00:01:10.270 --> 00:01:16.960 That's actually a little too much space, so I'll just click Decrease List Level... 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:21.250 The other thing to notice is that when you change the indent, the font size changes, 00:01:21.250 --> 00:01:22.250 too. 00:01:22.250 --> 00:01:27.980 So if you want the text to be a specific size, you may have to readjust it. 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:33.040 You can also use these methods to change the indentation on a bulleted or numbered list. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.460 And one reason why you might want to do this is to create a multilevel list. 00:01:38.460 --> 00:01:44.990 You can select the lines you want to change... and then click Increase Indent Level. 00:01:44.990 --> 00:01:50.430 And this is a multilevel list because these items form a kind of sub-list that is organized 00:01:50.430 --> 00:01:52.860 under this line. 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:58.130 Now to make these lines stand out a little bit more, we can change the bullet type. 00:01:58.130 --> 00:02:02.100 Having a different bullet here helps show that these lines are together and they're 00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:04.980 on a different level from the other lines. 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:08.750 The only thing I don't like about the bullets is that they're a little too far away from 00:02:08.750 --> 00:02:09.780 the text. 00:02:09.780 --> 00:02:12.200 So I'm going to fine-tune them using the Ruler. 00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:19.730 To do this, go to the View tab... and put a check where it says Ruler... 00:02:19.730 --> 00:02:23.810 When you select the lines, you'll be able to see the indent markers. 00:02:23.810 --> 00:02:28.600 And with bulleted lists, you can just move the Hanging Indent Marker to control how far 00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:30.380 the bullet is from the text... 00:02:30.380 --> 00:02:33.490 I want it to be pretty close to the text, but not too close. 00:02:33.490 --> 00:02:35.570 This can really make your lists look more polished. 00:02:35.570 --> 00:02:38.760 Now I'm going to go back to the paragraphs... 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:44.140 And I'd like to adjust the spacing in between the lines to open this up a little bit. 00:02:44.140 --> 00:02:51.130 So you can select the paragraphs... and on the Home tab, go to the Line Spacing command... 00:02:51.130 --> 00:02:56.120 You can choose a line spacing value here, but I'd really like something that's in between 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.819 these two values, say 1.3. 00:02:58.819 --> 00:03:04.459 To do that, just go down to Line Spacing Options... 00:03:04.459 --> 00:03:09.420 Just type in the value that you want here... 00:03:09.420 --> 00:03:14.459 While we're here, we can adjust the paragraph spacing, which is the extra spacing before 00:03:14.459 --> 00:03:16.440 and after each paragraph. 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:22.730 I'm going to change the spacing after to 12 points... 00:03:22.730 --> 00:03:26.480 This has spread out the lines a little bit, and you can also see that the paragraphs are 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:33.740 farther apart now, which is going to make it easier for the audience to read the text... 00:03:33.740 --> 00:03:37.959 Indents and line spacing can really make the difference between a presentation that looks 00:03:37.959 --> 00:03:40.659 pretty good and one that looks polished and professional.