Powerpoint 2002 : Increase maximum number of Bullet point indents

John

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Apr 9, 2008, 4:09:03 AM4/9/08

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I'm using PowerPoint 2002.
I need to increase the maximum number of bullet point indents beyond the
limit of 5.
Is there any way to do this?
I imagine that there may be some utility available that enables a hidden
group of configurable settings to become accessible.

TAJ Simmons

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Apr 9, 2008, 5:46:23 AM4/9/08

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John,

I don't believe it's possible.

Powerpoint only allows 5 different levels in the 'body text' placeholder.

Sorry :(

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John Wilson

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Apr 9, 2008, 5:48:00 AM4/9/08

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Pretty sure this can't be done. Depending what you are trying to achieve
maybe you could have more than one master? (This won't give you more than
five on any one slide)
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Sandy

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Apr 9, 2008, 8:36:00 AM4/9/08

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John,

I would encourage you not to go that deep (5 levels) on your PowerPoint
slides. It's looking like you might be placing too much content on your
slides -- unless you are using PowerPoint for print, then I guess that's a
different story.

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Steve Rindsberg

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Apr 9, 2008, 10:49:40 AM4/9/08

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There's one called PowerPoint 2007 ;-)

It allows more than five levels of indent. Earlier versions don't and there's
no way to change that.

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TAJ Simmons

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Apr 9, 2008, 4:25:48 PM4/9/08

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Sandy

>It's looking like you might be placing too much content on your slides

Good point!

Perhaps John will reply with what he is really trying to achieve...maybe he
wants more than 5 levels to achieve something else...like more styles per
slide perhaps?

cheers
TAJ

Lucy Thomson

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Apr 9, 2008, 7:15:34 PM4/9/08

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Hi John

I'm in agreement with Sandy. If a client came to me wanting more than 5
levels on one slide I would see if we; a) needed to split that information
up over several slides/look at the structure of the whole presentation; b)
could put some of the deeper level information into handouts (while the
presenter could still share this information orally); c) should combine a) &
b); d) would be able to work together at all ;-)

There is a really short but informative article on Garr Reynold's excellent
blog here:
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2006/04/slideuments_and.html

Lucy

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