google-slides
I need to create a Google Drive Presentation, based on a corporate theme. For some reason, there's a hanging indent, which means that a multi-line paragraph looks like this:
I don't see any ruler like in the text editor. How can I remove the hanging indent?
Unfortunately page numbers in Presentations hasn't been implemented yet.
We don't currently support master slide functionality, so you'll need to insert numbers and logos manually.
Its likely that i will be in the future - but no idea when.
Someone on another forum suggested a workaround by using the features built into Adobe Acrobat to add the page numbers (Open the document in acrobat, open the tools menu, goto Pages > Header and Footer > Add Footer/Header)
Yup, you can set the background color to be semi-transparent. Use the custom color option, it gives you the ability to set transparency.
The result will be..
Best Answer
If you position the cursor at the beginning of that line, like so
and press ← Backspace once, the hanging lines will all align with the first line, like this:
Note: This suggests that Google Slides uses some kind of pseudo-character to represent this type of hanging paragraph indentation. If you press ← Backspace again, all the lines will shift further to the left of your text box, suggesting that another uniform indentation psuedo-character of some kind. Neither are true characters, in that they cannot be selected or copied, so they are most likely some internal state tracked by the text box.