Tip #3945 - Promotion / Demotion
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Promotion
/ Demotion
Do you use a lot of
bulleted lists in MS PowerPoint? I bet if you're a big PowerPoint user,
they are a part of your daily life, right?
I'd even bet that
somewhere along the way, you've had a list where individual items had
sub-points below them.
For those sub-points,
we need to indent them further than the main list and usually, the bullet
style changes as well. (This is called a demotion).
Also, I'm sure you've
figured out that you use the Increase Indent button to
make the demotion and the Decrease Indent button to move
the item back toward the left (called a promotion).
But what if you prefer
to use the keyboard?
Is there an easy way
for you to accomplish a promotion or demotion without all the mouse work?
Of course! It's all
just a matter of the correct keys.
The first step is
to move your cursor to the very left of the first line
of the item. (The Home key works for this and maybe an
up arrow, if the item is longer than one line).
- To demote
the item (move it right), hit the Tab key.
- To promote
the item (move it left), use Shift + Tab.
With either of these
movements, you'll find that PowerPoint automatically changes the bullet
associated with the item.
There you have it.
List promotions and demotions without a single mouse click to be heard!
~ April
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