Solved: Simple Question about Paragraph Spacing

[discomute]

Why is it that the simple questions drive us crazy? :banghead:

Okay so when ever I type into a text box in powerpoint, if I press enter, it will start the new paragraph with 1.5x spacing.

When I press enter I want to just jump to the next line. Like it does in the text box I am currently using. I can do this using multiple text boxes but it is a bit of a pain.

Can anyone help with this oh-so-simple problem?

thanks it advance,
discomute

[Oorang]

Well, you can change it in the master to fix all textboxes auto generated when you do "new slide", but AFAIK for new text boxes you still have to select the text box, go to the "format" menu, and select "line spacing".

A cheap work around is to type your text in notepad an paste it in.

[John Wilson]

I don't think you can alter the dafault either but you can reduce the pain by changing one text box and then using the format painter tool to change the rest

OR vba to do the whole presentation in one go

Sub zapspace()
Dim osld As Slide
Dim oshp As Shape
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oshp In osld.Shapes
If oshp.Type = msoTextBox Then
oshp.TextFrame.TextRange.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore = 0
End If
Next oshp
Next osld
End Sub

[TrippyTom]

Perhaps I'm oversimplifying your question, but can't you:
1) Set the line spacing the way you want it
2) Right click the text box and choose: Set Autoshape Defaults

The next text box you create will have those same line spacing settings. It works in PPT 2003. Don't know what version you're on.

[Oorang]

Tom that failed on my test... And I am on PPT2003 as well?

[John Wilson]

You cannot set line spacing with "set autoshape defaults". What you will get if you try (probably) is a default of no fill, no line for ALL new shapes!
Of course you could always use that shape as a pretend text box as shapes are single line spaced by default.

[TrippyTom]

Why is it working for me then? I'm using PPT 2003 with Service Pack 2 (11.8110.8122)
I tried it on a shape and then on a textbox, and both worked for me.