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Indents and tab stops (tab stop: A location on the horizontal ruler that indicates how far to indent text or where to begin a column of text.) help you align your text on a slide. For numbered and bulleted lists, preset indents exist for five levels of bullets (bullet: A dot or other symbol that is placed before text, such as items in a list, to add emphasis.) or numbers and body text. When you type paragraphs (paragraph: Text that has a carriage return (hard return) at the end of it, such as when you press ENTER. Each item in a bulleted or numbered list is a paragraph; a title or subtitle is also a paragraph.) without using bullets or numbers, an initial indent and default tab stops help you to indent your text. You can change and add indent and tab-stop positions.

Indents and tab stops appear on the horizontal ruler. When you click a new slide, and then either click the text area in a placeholder (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders that are part of most slide layouts. These boxes hold title and body text or objects such as charts, tables, and pictures.) or click a text box (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.), the default indents and tab stops appear.

1. On the View tab, in the Show/Hide group, select the Ruler check box.
2. On the slide, click inside a text placeholder.

   The indent and tab stop positions appear on the horizontal ruler.

  Notes  

• For information about how to set, change, or clear tab stops, see Set, change, or clear tab stops.
• For details about the uses for each indent and tab setting, see Tabs.