How to Adjust Paragraph Spaces in PowerPoint
Many of the features in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation come with default formatting settings, from the font and color of the text to the width and length of the text boxes. Although PowerPoint offers themes and templates to save you setup time, you can adjust and edit all of the PowerPoint parts to suit your presentation needs. Change PowerPoint's default paragraph spacing, for example, to provide more white space for viewers' eyes on text-heavy slides.
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Instructions
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Start PowerPoint, click the "File" tab and select "Open." Navigate to the PowerPoint presentation on which you want to adjust paragraph spacing and double-click the file name.
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Scroll through the slide deck on the left side of the screen or use the "Page Down" key on the keyboard to get to the slide with the paragraph to change.
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Right-click anywhere in the paragraph. You do not have to highlight the entire paragraph's text.
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Click the "Paragraph" option from the fly-out menu.
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Pull down the "Line Spacing" menu, which may show "Single" as the default. Choose the "1.5 Lines" or "Double" for standard-spacing formatting or click the "Exactly" option, which enables the "At" box. Type into the "At" box the preferred spacing for the paragraph and click the "OK" button to return to the slide.
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