WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.549 Pictures, text boxes, and shapes are all considered objects in PowerPoint. 00:00:12.549 --> 00:00:16.820 Sometimes you may need a little help arranging these objects to get your 00:00:16.820 --> 00:00:19.180 slides to look exactly the way you want. 00:00:19.180 --> 00:00:23.340 For example, take a look at the different pictures on this slide. 00:00:23.340 --> 00:00:28.800 Right now they're placed kind of randomly but I'd rather have them lined up in a row. 00:00:28.810 --> 00:00:34.910 Of course, I could try to do this manually or I can get PowerPoint to do it for me! 00:00:34.910 --> 00:00:40.100 The first thing you need to do is select the objects. 00:00:40.100 --> 00:00:46.920 To select all of them at once, just hold Shift on your keyboard while you click. 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:51.820 Next, we'll go the Format tab and click the Align command. 00:00:51.820 --> 00:00:58.579 You have several different options to choose from ranging from vertical to horizontal alignment. 00:00:58.579 --> 00:01:03.219 You can also choose whether to align the objects to the slide or to each other, 00:01:03.219 --> 00:01:08.350 which is the default setting when you select multiple objects like this. 00:01:08.350 --> 00:01:12.800 This time I'm going to go with Align Bottom 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:17.640 And now the objects are aligned with one another along their bottom edge. 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:22.060 Note that they didn't move all the way to the bottom of the slide 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:24.670 they just moved enough to be aligned with one another. 00:01:24.670 --> 00:01:28.369 Now if we did want to align them with the side we could 00:01:28.369 --> 00:01:33.420 go back to the Align command and select Align to Slide. 00:01:33.420 --> 00:01:37.659 And now if I click Align Middle 00:01:37.659 --> 00:01:41.470 they move to the exact middle of the slide. 00:01:41.470 --> 00:01:46.380 There's another thing I'd like to change that can be done just as easily. 00:01:46.420 --> 00:01:50.340 Notice how the shapes are lined up but they're not quite evenly spaced? 00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:53.960 To fix that, we will need to distribute the objects 00:01:53.970 --> 00:02:00.030 First, we'll go back to the Align command and choose Align Selected Objects. 00:02:00.030 --> 00:02:03.950 That's because we only want to put an equal amount of space between each picture. 00:02:03.950 --> 00:02:09.560 We don't want to spread them out equally across the whole slide. 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:14.060 Next we'll choose Distribute Horizontally 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.800 And there we go! 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.950 Now the pictures have the same amount of space between one another. 00:02:20.920 --> 00:02:25.480 Now that I have these objects arranged to the way I want, 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:28.580 I'm going to group them so that they always stay together. 00:02:28.610 --> 00:02:33.680 Just make sure you have each of your objects selected, then click the Group command... 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:36.280 and choose Group. 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:43.840 Now we had a single grouped object that we can move and resize anyway we want 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.160 See how each shape in the group does the same thing? 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:55.040 And if you ever want to ungroup your objects, just select Group>Ungroup. 00:02:56.670 --> 00:02:58.850 You know, I think I'd also like to 00:02:58.850 --> 00:03:07.700 add a new shape to this slide, so I'll go to the Insert tab and click the Shapes command. 00:03:07.700 --> 00:03:15.410 This one looks pretty good. 00:03:15.410 --> 00:03:22.810 And I'll just select a different shape style to make it look the way I want. 00:03:24.050 --> 00:03:26.230 Hmm...this looks OK 00:03:26.230 --> 00:03:30.550 but what I'd really like is to have the arrow shape behind all the pictures. 00:03:30.550 --> 00:03:34.670 Right now it's overlapping and we really can't see them very well. 00:03:34.670 --> 00:03:40.100 This can happen any time you have multiple objects, depending on the order they're in. 00:03:40.100 --> 00:03:46.340 To change the order of an object, make sure its selected, then go to the Format tab. 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:50.680 You have two commands to choose from: Bring Forward or Send Backward 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.860 depending on what you need. 00:03:52.870 --> 00:03:57.610 Now you may need to experiment with these options to find what you're looking for. 00:03:57.610 --> 00:04:03.360 For example if I click Send Backward, this shape moves back only one level, 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:08.440 (basically behind one of the pictures) but the others are still covered up by the arrow. 00:04:09.710 --> 00:04:13.660 Whenever you're working with multiple objects like this it can be helpful to 00:04:13.660 --> 00:04:15.940 turn on the selection pane. 00:04:15.940 --> 00:04:20.590 From here you can easily see the order of all the objects on this slide 00:04:20.590 --> 00:04:24.480 and even change their order within the pane if you prefer. 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:29.250 OK, so it looks like the arrow shape is still above the other two pictures, 00:04:29.250 --> 00:04:32.150 so I'm going to click the drop-down arrow here 00:04:32.150 --> 00:04:37.740 and choose Send to Back...and that takes care of it! 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:40.860 If we we look at the selection pane, we can see that the shape 00:04:40.869 --> 00:04:47.049 was moved to the very bottom, which is why it appears behind the pictures on the slide. 00:04:47.150 --> 00:04:51.120 Finally, I am going to group these pictures with the area shape so I can 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.390 resize them and move them exactly where I want without changing any of this 00:04:55.390 --> 00:04:59.720 other formatting I've done. 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.920 OK! Everything is perfectly aligned and arranged in the right order! 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.240 I'm really happy with the way this slide looks. 00:05:07.249 --> 00:05:11.049 The more you practice using these tools on your own, the better you'll be at 00:05:11.049 --> 00:05:14.529 working with objects in all kinds of situations.