How to reduce the vertical whitespace between contiguous bullet points in MS PowerPoint

Question

Consider, as an example, the vertical whitespace between the first and second list element, i.e. their associated texts. It'd like to reduce this whitespace.

Answer 1

Select the lines of bulleted text. Right-click and choose Paragraph from the context-menu. Change the Spacing values to something more preferable. Defaults are 10pt for Before, and 0pt for After.