Show Paragraph Markers in Powerpoint?

[Prothios]

Is there functionality in Powerpoint 2003 to show the paragraph marks (same as the functionality of Show/Hide Paragraph Mark button in Microsoft Word)?

Thanks!

 

[fumei]

Ummm, I don't think so. If this is an issue for some reason, you could pull the text into Word to check it.

What exactly is the problem?

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Why would you do it, but...

Insert/Object - Microsoft Word Document.

Hit the Show/Hide Toolbar Button as desired and type.

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[fumei]

Bleech.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[SkipVought]

My sentiments, exactly.

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[Prothios]

No major problem - I know most don't like the symbols (and some hate them!), but I find it useful in making sure that things are lined up.

I'll work around it!

Thank you for the input!

 

[fumei]

Well most of us who use Word professionally love having Show/Hide on. It is just that PowerPoint is not a word processor, so it does not have it. As Skip suggests, you could use Word document objects, but bleech, bleech.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[Prothios]

I definately understand that it's not a word processor, but being that powerpoint is for presentations, everything should line up as nicely as possible for presentation purposes.

I understand your concern - I've seen some whacky uses of Excel as a word processor...also have seen individuals using a calculator to total a column within Excel...

 

[Welshbird]

How about putting the crossy-griddy thing on (technical term doncha know)? Then it gets much easier.

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[fumei]

I've seen some whacky uses of Excel as a word processor

Indeed.

And some even more whacky uses of Word as a spreadsheet!

Still, generally speaking, PowerPoint does line up text pretty good. I thought the issue was seeing the paragraph marks for the purpose of seeing extraneous spaces. The paragraph mark itself does not have anything to do with lining things up.

Yes, presentation should absolutely line up nicely. Rather the point isn't it? I am not following how seeing the paragraph marks would help this.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[Prothios]

I should have been more specific - when turning on the paragraph marks, the space/tab/etc marks appear as well. It allows me see what exactly is affecting how things are spaced. (Granted when I write the document myself, I know what I did to align text, though others have differing methods of aligning text and not all text may be written by myself but from my coworkers).

 

[SkipVought]

Frankly, I never had trouble lining things up in PP, or pining for hidden markers in PP.

You can always Snap or use the horizontal and vertical guides to align shapes.

Don't know that I would ever use Word in PP in order to view markers (a sympathetic bleech)

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[Prothios]

I've decided to just deal with it - inserting Word into Powerpoint would just be adding a new level of complexity for the sake of a minor benefit.

Thanks again for the help!