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Double glitch: font size and indentation
Both errors are probably the result of something in the master slide layout. The second may also be the effect of copy/paste artifacts that occasionally crop up in SL360.
To address the first problem (the weird indent), you need to work with the paragraph settings:
These work as they do in a word processing tool. What I had to do to eliminate the weird indent effect was to copy the text out, paste it in a text editor (not Word, but Notepad or Notepad++) to ensure that it had no strange carriage returns or anything, then copy and paste it back in to the story. If I recall correctly I just pasted it into an empty text box - either off the slide or on a different slide altogether. Then I brought that text box back to the slide where I needed it.
I have no specific answer about why it occurs, but it has happened to me, and that's how I fixed it.
The second issue, while annoying, can be resolved by simply changing the properties of the text box:
I would probably uncheck the "autofit" option and then set the font to the desired size. ("Autofit" would most likely shrink the text to fit the dimensions of the text box as it currently is.)
Again, no specific causes, but as a general practice - if I experience a couple of these types of issues I start running my text through the Notepad option to ensure that there's nothing "hidden" in text formatting that could cause headaches.
Good luck.
Now it gets interesting! The indentation issue was solved on that slide, but not every slide. It appears to be an error with justified text - when I set the text to be aligned any other way, the indent issue goes away. But like I said, it's not a consistent error throughout the project and I haven't yet found anything linking what works and what's broken.
I think I've figured out exactly when the glitch is triggering: it only happens when the text box includes variable text. The text in the screenshot below was suffering from the negative indent until I took out the %todaysYear% and put in static text. Then the issue was gone. I solved the issue in the previous comment by moving that variable text into its own text box without realizing that it was the problem.