PowerPoint Word Wrap - Splitting Words Down the Middle
This one drove me crazy for a while…and the solution is even wilder. So hopefully, this will help someone.
If you are working on PowerPoint slides and you find that your words are somehow splitting onto new lines, you can follow the below steps to correct this.
- Close PowerPoint
- Navigate to Start –> Programs –> Microsoft Office –> Microsoft Office Tools –> Microsoft Office Language Settings
- Add Japanese (don’t ask why, just do it)
- Navigate to the slide master. Navigate to Line Spacing (or Line Breaks) in your menu (or ribbon)
- You will notice a tab for Asian Language support. Uncheck the second check-box (Allow Latin text to wrap in the middle of a word).
- You’re all set.
- Navigate to Start –> Programs –> Microsoft Office –> Microsoft Office Tools –> Microsoft Office Language Settings and remove Japanese if you’d like.
Good luck!
This post is absolutlety mind blowing! I can’t believe that it actually works, but it does. You have saved me from even more frustration. I had been using Office 2007 for several weeks and all of my Power Point files that had text blocks were screwed up with the whole “letter” wrapping problem.
Thanks Again,
Rick
Comment by rkehler — September 21, 2007 @ 8:14 am
“This post is absolutlety mind blowing!”
I’m not sure if “mind blowing” was a desired or anticipated result, but I am going to take it in a good way. I’m certainly glad this helped you — I tend to believe for the one person that posts a thank you, another 10-100 people were benefited, so thank you for taking the time.
Comment by Ashok Aggarwal — September 23, 2007 @ 1:09 am
Wow! I just searched for word wrap and knew that Microsoft was not going to have an answer to this simple question. Your listing was next on the google search results list. YOU KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK! Sorry for screaming but I never get this lucky…. what am I going to do with the next 1.5 hours that you saved me searching for the real fix! This is awesome… pass it on… I can’t imagine how such a fundamental function can be so hard to turn back on…. Oh us poor users! Thanks for you gift!
Comment by nnolan — October 9, 2007 @ 6:15 pm
I know I must be overlooking something extremely obvious here, but .… Once I get to step 4. and I’ve re-opened the Slide Master, how do I navigate to Line Spacing (in PowerPoint 2007)? If I select some paragraph text and choose the Paragraph context menu which brings me to Line Spacing, there are no Asian Language Tabs. I can’t see any other way to navigate to line spacing options (or Line Break) options. As usual PowerPoint Help is opaque.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
Comment by Rod Whiteley — October 29, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
@Rod Whiteley
Just select the text in the slide master, right click, and select Paragraph…
If you don’t see the “Asian Typography” tab, you probably didn’t perform the previous steps properly. I don’t think I can really provide more help than that, but maybe someone else will comment further if they noticed something similar.
Good luck!
Comment by Ashok Aggarwal — October 30, 2007 @ 12:17 am
I have a related text-wrapping problem I first observed on Powerpoint in Office 2008 for Macintosh. May be trivial, but I can’t “wrap” my brain around it.
For some reason when a word is wrapped to the next line in a text box, the space preceding the word is also wrapped and remains in front of it leaving an indent and thus not a straight margin.
Clues for clueless?
Comment by swampy — June 7, 2008 @ 11:54 am