in powerpoints you can align group and
order objects such as pictures shapes
and text boxes on the slide if you
usually create simple slides with just
text or just text in one image a charts
or a graphic you may never need to know
how to use these tools but if you want
more creative control and the ability to
customize your slides you can use
powerpoints commands to arrange the
objects on your slide easily let's take
a look at how this works I've inserted a
few pictures on slide 8 that depicts the
topics we will discuss in this section I
can click and drag each picture and
tries to line them up exactly so they
are evenly distributed and look nice on
the slide but guesswork will never give
me the best result
luckily PowerPoint gives us several
commands so we can arrange and position
the contents perfectly to arrange our
three objects let's first select all
three of the pictures to do this you can
just click and drag until a selection
box appears around all three then
release the mouse button now you can see
that all the objects are selected
you know this because these sizing
handles appear around each one now you
are ready to arrange the objects just
click the format tab which appears when
the objects are selected in the arrange
group you have six commands right now
we're going to talk about the align
group and rotate commands to align these
objects just click the align command
and select an option from the menu i
want to distribute the pictures
horizontally so they will be evenly
spaced across the slide so I will select
that option now I want to align the
pictures so the top of each picture is
level I'll just click align and select
align top we can see how this changes
the alignment let's look at a line
bottom and now a line middle these three
options aligns the pictures up with each
other picture PowerPoint did this
because align selected objects is
selected in the menu if you change this
and select a line to slide instead these
three commands will work differently I
like things the way they are so I'll
leave it as it is not all the menu
options make sense for every slide for
example our pictures are lines up
horizontally so if you click the align
command and then select align center or
even align left or right the objects are
formatted in a way that doesn't make
sense the best way to learn how the
align commands menu options effects the
objects if you practice using each one
on a variety of slides at times you may
also want to group objects together to
make them easier to work with for
example on this slide I may decide I
want to move the slides around without
using the align commands instead of
moving each object individually I can
group all three pictures together and
move them as one object to do this click
and drag to select all the objects then
release the mouse button
each object should appear selected you
will know it it select it because there
are sizing handles around each object
now just select before Matt tab and
click the group commands in the arrange
group from the menu just select group
and now you can see that the slide has
changed and all these selected objects
are enclosed in one box with sizing
handles this means that you have
successfully grouped the selected
objects into one object to move the
object just click and drag it to a new
location on the slide and then release
the mouse button see how much easier
that is and moving each object
individually if you want to ungroup just
click the object to select it and click
the group command from the menu select
ungroup and now each object is
individually selected and can be moved
separately in the arrange group you also
have the rotates command all the
pictures on my slide look good but I
want to show you how this works just
select the objects you need to rotate or
turn and then click the rotate command
as you hover over each menu option a
live preview of it will appear on the
slide we can see how it can rotate right
90 degrees rotates left 90 degrees flip
vertical or flip horizontal in addition
to aligning and grouping power points
gives you the ability to arrange objects
in a certain order on slide 11 we have
some information about the paperwork
process I want to insert a graphic on
this slide you can use a smart
our graphic which is easy to insert and
format but sometimes you may want to
work with objects on your own I've
already inserted an arrow shape on this
slide I need two more arrows so I will
just select this one and click the copy
and then paste commands on the Home tab
and now press the paste command again
for another arrow
notice how the arrows appear one on top
of the other
I want to rearrange this to do this
select the objects you want to modify I
want the tail of this arrow to appear
below the head of the first one to do
this select the format tab in the
arrange group select send to back and
then choose send to back or send
backward sends you back sends the object
to the very back or very bottom of the
stack of objects send backward sends the
object back one layer since we just want
this to appear below the first Arrowhead
just select send backwards now we need
to arrange this arrow so we'll just
select it and click send to back you can
see how this commands allow me to
arrange the shapes one on top of the
other you can also use the brain to
front commands in the same way to order
objects such as shapes and pictures as
well as text boxes practice aligning
grouping and ordering to see how you can
place text on top of objects pictures
inside of objects or group items and
move them around on your slides
you