Show/Hide Paragraph Marks

Question

Hello,

Is it possible to display the paragraph marks, tab marks, spaces, etc in PowerPoint?  I would like similar type marks as in Word.

I am using Office 2007 on Win XP.

Thanks in advance,

Gilley Estes

Answer 1

It's not possible in PowerPoint unfortunately

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Answer 2

Just for the record tyou are agreeing with fee not John. (Not that I don't acually agree!)

It may be helpful to copy the text and paste into Word where you can checvk para and tab marks etc. I know this isn't a great workaround but it can help.

Answer 3

That certainly is surprising, especially from a company that has been pushing for "Standardization" of products {Office} to better help customers with increased funcionality and a decreased learning curve.

Oops....   Wouldn't it make the Office product more stream-lined if the GUI's / interfaces actually were standardized? I would think that more customers would be happier with the products, increasing customer loyalty, and sales, etc. Making customers have to hunt around for functions that they are used to inother applicatyions, only to find out that they are no longer offered, or not available in "this iteration of the Office Suite" is quite disappointing.

I completely agree with John, things like this make it rather difficult to draft consistent layouts, or to help others improve theirs. How about a little more focus on the customers & users, please? Perhaps a "focus group" of customers that don't come from all of the top fortune 100s?

Answer 4

Wow, that is a real drawback if you want to keep spacing consistent through all the slides as I'm finding doing my first PP presentation. Coming from a graphic design background this is important for many reasons, now I'm understanding why other people's slides have inconsistent text layouts.