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Set vertical overflow to ellipsis in PowerPoint via user interface?

Anonymous
2019-06-13T18:55:35+00:00

It turns out PowerPoint can actually truncate text overflow with ellipsis, and can handle multiple lines. It's basically like a smarter version of CSS text-overflow: ellipsis, see third image below:

  1. wrap set to false
  2. wrap set to true
  3. wrap set to true and vertical overflow set to ellipsis

However, I can only get it to do this by manually editing the XML and setting the vertOverflow="ellipsis" in the body properties for the text block, e.g.

 <a:bodyPr wrap="none" vertOverflow="ellipsis" rtl="0" anchor="t">

Is there any way a regular user can set this feature on/off within the Powerpoint application user interface?

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-06-13T20:16:09+00:00

    Interesting but I cannot see any way to do this without XML. There's nothing in vba or the GUI I can find.

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  1. John Korchok 224.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2019-06-13T19:11:48+00:00

    Thanks for the information. There are many capabilities of the Office file formats that can only be unlocked by editing the XML. The program interface is relatively feeble (or "user-friendly", depending on your point of view), even in the Windows versions of Office.

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