Text Misaligned to Bullet Point

Choose a larger bullet, they come in different sizes. If you use the round bullet that comes with your chosen font, it may be tiny. Then to make it large enough, you have to increase the size in Paragraph>Bullets>Bullets and Numbering above 100%. That also force the distance from the baseline to increase, giving the effect you posted.

Instead, switch the bullet font to Symbol or Wingdings to get beefy bullets that don't need enlarging.

The problem is that MSFT have set the bullet alignment default to AUTO instead of the probably more useful CENTER.

AFAIK this cannot be accessed except with code.

This would set the current master to centered bullets

Sub fixBulletAlignment()

   Dim oDes As Design

   Dim oMast As Master

   Dim L As Long

   Dim oCust As CustomLayout

   Dim oshp As Shape

   For Each oDes In ActivePresentation.Designs

      For Each oCust In oDes.SlideMaster.CustomLayouts

         For Each oshp In oCust.Shapes

            If oshp.Type = msoPlaceholder Then

               Select Case oshp.PlaceholderFormat.Type

               Case Is = ppPlaceholderBody, ppPlaceholderVerticalBody, ppPlaceholderObject

                  For L = 1 To oshp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs.Count

                     With oshp.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraphs(L).ParagraphFormat

                     .BaseLineAlignment = ppBaselineAlignCenter

                     End With

                  Next L

               End Select

            End If

         Next oshp

      Next oCust

   Next oDes

   MsgBox "Masters and layouts fixed", vbInformation, "PowerPoint Alchemy"

End Sub

if you do not know what to do with the code either ask advice here or google for how to use vba in powerPoint

No, It's not your template. Please re-read my post. I stated that increasing the size of the bullet raises it further above the baseline.

Don't increase the bullet size. Choose a different bullet, like the bullets in Symbol or Wingdings.

When I increase the size of the bullet it just gets bigger and raises above the line of the text again. I think its just a problem with the template im using. May need to make my own template.

Cool, I'll have to file this one away...