Align “Paragraph”

Depending on the type of “Placeholder box”, the alignment of the text has a standard setting.

For example, the text in a title box will be centered and the text in an object box will be left aligned.

The various options for the alignment of text are found in the “Paragraph” button under the “Home” tab in the “Ribbon”.

I will not explain all those alignment buttons because they are the same for every “Microsoft” application.

But what I can do is this:

To align the text , or the whole “Placeholder box”, select a paragraph or select the text, then click the alignment of your choice.

 

 

The “Line spacing”, which is the fifth button on the top row, defaults to 1. Increase this distance by clicking the downward-pointing arrow and selecting a different setting from the drop-down menu. Then the size of the text is adapted to the size of the “Placeholder box”.

 

The three buttons on the right side of the “Paragraph” group will be 1) to modify the text direction, 2) to change the vertical text alignment and 3) to convert the text to a “SmartArt” graphic. You can learn more about “SmartArt” graphics in a later lesson.

 

Finally, to provide the text with bullets or numbering, click the “Tab” key on your keyboard.
To remove this, click the “Shift”+” Tab” key on your keyboard.

 

The “Ruler”

We use tabs in our presentation to align the information in our presentation in the same way as we use tabs in “Word” 2010.

To the left of the “Ruler”, we find the tab selector.

The tab selector contains the different types of tabs that we can use in our presentation.

 

By clicking on the tab selector, you change the type of tab

   The left tab stop with which , we set the starting position of text,while typing from left to right.

   With a tab stop for the centering, we set the position of the center of the text. While typing, the text is                          centered on this position.

   A decimal tab stop, aligns numbers we round off with a comma. The point remains in the same                                      position, regardless of the number of digits.

  With a right tab stop, we set the right end of the text. As you type the text to the left.

 

By default, the left tab stop is set.

 

To set a tab in the “Ruler”, first choose the type with the tab selector and then click on the position where you want it in the “Ruler”.

 

Clicking the “Tab” key on your keyboard, will automatically move the cursor to the next tab.

 

All data is aligned nicely in this way in our presentation.

 

To create a tab setting out your “Ruler”, click and drag it down from the “Ruler”.

If you want to know more about tabs, I’ll refer to the Word 2010 course, Lesson 21.

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