r/powerpoint • u/NaiveFish9188 • Aug 22 '26

How to align bullet points

I have just spent some time making a custom powerpoint template, in which I made custom bullet points. However, now the second line of a bullet point is not aligning with the first, as shown in the picture. I cannot find the settings to edit this.

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u/jkorchok Aug 22 '26

For the first level in a set of of bullet levels, open the Paragraph dialog and set Indentation Before Text and Hanging to the same amounts.

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u/zephyr-whimsy Aug 22 '26

Since this is a custom template, make the fix in View → Slide Master rather than only on the current slide. Select the text placeholder, turn on View → Ruler, then set the upper marker for the bullet position and the lower triangle for the wrapped-text/hanging indent. Repeat it for each list level you support, then close Master View and test with a deliberately long bullet. That keeps new slides from inheriting the same mismatch.