Microsoft KB Archive/120200

= PPT: Summary of TAB Key Usage with Text and Objects =

Article ID: 120200

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 for Macintosh

-



This article was previously published under Q120200



SUMMARY
Pressing the TAB key in Slide or Notes view results in one of three different actions, depending on what is initially selected:
 * 1) If an object (or nothing) is selected:

Pressing TAB selects the next object, following the order in which the objects were created. Pressing SHIFT+TAB selects the previous object.
 * 1) If the cursor is within a bulleted text frame (body text):

If the cursor is at the beginning of a line, pressing TAB demotes the indent of that line, while pressing SHIFT+TAB promotes the indent.

At the beginning of a line, pressing CTRL+TAB (or OPTION+TAB on the Macintosh) overrides an indent and inserts a tab, moving the cursor to either the next default or user-defined tab stop. To remove these tabs, press the BACKSPACE key.

If the cursor is within or at the end of the line, pressing TAB inserts a tab, moving the cursor to either the next default tab or user- defined tab stop.
 * 1) If the cursor is within a text frame created using the Text tool pressing the TAB key inserts a tab, moving the cursor to the next default or user-defined tab stop.



MORE INFORMATION
Body text is the only object that has bullets by default. The TAB key is used to promote or demote body text, in addition to the Demote and Promote buttons on the toolbar.

All other objects, such as the text frames on the notes page, have no bullets by default. You can promote or demote unbulleted text on notes pages by clicking the Promote and Demote buttons on the toolbar.

If you want to use the TAB key to promote or demote text in the notes pages, you must first turn on bullets. You can turn bullets on or off by clicking the Bullet button on the toolbar.

Additional query words: powerpoint powerpt outline mac win indent winppt indentation format alignment 4.0 palette macppt ppt powerpnt

Keywords: kbinfo kbusage KB120200

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.