formatting marks in PowerPoint?

[R V Jones]

Is there a way to display formatting marks in PowerPoint?
I inherited a presentation that someone else started and I
have no idea why there are odd line breaks and extra
spaces in the text. It would be helpful to know if returns
or tabs are causing those problems.

Thanks.

[TAJ Simmons]

R V Jones,

I'm pretty sure that powerpoint has no options to display formatting marks.
I find the easiest way is to highlight all the text, slide per slide, then
you can see the extra spaces. For removing the line breaks....I cursor
through all the text (slide by slide) and remove the hard returns by hand.
Likewise with the tabs. Yes, it's laborious, but it works.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Steve Rindsberg]

> you can see the extra spaces. For removing the line breaks....I cursor
> through all the text (slide by slide) and remove the hard returns by hand.
> Likewise with the tabs. Yes, it's laborious, but it works.

Edit, Replace (Ctrl+H) might be quicker? ;-)

There's probably some magic keystrokethingie to put a tab character into the
search box; I don't know what it is, but you can put a tab into the text in
PPT then copy/paste it into the search textbox.

[TAJ Simmons]

I supposed if there is loads and loads of spaces (those people who grew up
on typewriters) to align text up, then a find and replace of 2 spaces with 1
space would save time. But you're still have to switch to manual to finish
the job ;)

TAJ

[Steve Rindsberg]

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Seems only fair to me: somebody spent a lot of time messing it up manually,
so somebody has to spend a lot of time cleaning up.

Pity the second somebody's never the first somebody.