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Indentation is measured in inches, and it can be any whole number or decimal, such as 1.2 inches. You can use the Special options to only indent the first line, or to add a hanging indent. To add indentation or change the amount of indentation before text, select or type a number in the Before text box. Distributed is similar to Justified, but even the last line touches both the left and right margins, with space added between words and letters, as necessary. Justified adds spacing between words so that the lines of text touch both the left and right margins, except for the last line of the paragraph, which uses normal word spacing. To change the horizontal placement of text, in the Alignment box, choose Left, Center, Right, Justified, or Distributed. Here are the options available in the dialog box: On the slide, select the text that you want to change.Ĭlick Home, and in the Paragraph group, click the dialog box launcher.

Re-select, and then try the steps above to set the hanging indent.There are more detailed spacing options available in the Paragraph dialog box:.

At the very least, backspace over any gaps until they're all back to the left edge.

Clear any spacing/indentation formatting they brought with them.

Sometimes, (not sure why) it won't work correctly - the whole thing will be indented together instead of creating the hang.

Add 0.5" spacing "before text" in the middle Indentation section as well.Īnd voila, hanging indents on your slide!.

Select "Hanging" from the middle section for Indentation, and set it at 0.5".

However, we have to do something a little different than Word - we can't just select 'hanging indent' and be done with it!

Like Word, PowerPoint has a cluster of paragraph settings, and we can click on line spacing to open up the Line Spacing Options (which includes indentation settings).

If you started your citations with bullet points, you first need to remove those for the hanging indents to work using these instructions. The screenshots and steps in this answer are based on PowerPoint installed to a Windows PC, Office 365 subscription - available for free to LSC students via.