Text in Text Box won't shift right

[wolf_tracks]

PPT 2007 student version. I began with a file made with 97, and cleaned
out what I didn't need. I created a new slide with a text box, and cut
and pasted text into it from the previous page. If I select the text and
try to move it to the right or even put bullets for each short line, not
much happens. Oddly for the bulleting, the first line is the only one
that receives the bullet. Comments?
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Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person
over a lifetime:
Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can
Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars

-- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[wolf_tracks]

PPT 2007 student version. I began with a file made with 97, and cleaned
out what I didn't need. I created a new slide with a text box, and cut
and pasted text into it from the previous page. If I select the text and
try to move it to the right or even put bullets for each short line, not
much happens. Oddly for the bulleting, the first line is the only one
that receives the bullet. Comments?

It seems like this may be a compatibility problem. The window border
show the file name and in parenthesis show Compatibility Mode.
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Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet


Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Matti Vuori]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

It seems like this may be a compatibility problem. The window border
show the file name and in parenthesis show Compatibility Mode.

In that case you might get rid of the problem by first saving the file as
PPT 2007 presentation.

 

[Echo S]

The bullet on only one line is probably because PPT is reading those line
breaks as soft returns, so you have only one "paragraph" broken into
different lines instead of separate "paragraphs," each on its own line.

Put your cursor at the end of each line and delete until the next line moves
up. Then hit Enter to create a new bullet point if you need it.

As for moving it to the right, do you mean you're trying to right-align the
text? If that's the case, then right-click the textbox and choose Format
Textbox (or format object or whatever it says as the last option in the
right-click dropdown). On the Text Box tab there, make sure "middle
centered" is not selected. Change it to plain ol' Middle alignment instead.

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[wolf_tracks]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:


In that case you might get rid of the problem by first saving the file as
PPT 2007 presentation.

That worked, but now how do I transfer the modified ppt file slides to
the 2007 version?

That is, I first modified the 97 file, call it A, and saved it as a docx
file, call it B. Now I have a 2007 version that came from 97 that is not
modified, but seems fine in the 2007, call it C.

I cannot have both files open at the same time to copy and paste, or cay I?

 

[wolf_tracks]

OK,I got it squared away. As per one poster, I had to remove the special
characters. Fortunately, I caught all this in the early stages, and
really only had to deal with two pages.


--
Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Solid waste produced to generate electricity per person
over a lifetime:
Nuclear power -- 2 pounds in a coke can
Fossil (coal) fuel -- 68.5 tons in six 12-ton RR cars

-- Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>