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in some of your presentations you're
probably going to have pictures and
shapes and text boxes all on the same
slide and to get everything to look
right you'll need to know how to arrange
the objects we're going to go over the
different options that you have in this
example I have several copies of the
same picture and right now they're in
kind of a random arrangement and I want
to align them so that they're all in a
row I could drag each one individually
but I can also get PowerPoint to align
them for me
you'll first need to select all of the
objects that you want to align just
click and drag over the objects to make
a selection box when you let go all of
them will be selected go to the format
tab and then click the align command and
you'll have six different alignment
options I'm going to choose align bottom
this has aligned the bottom edges of
each object now they didn't move to the
bottom of the slide they only moved just
enough to be aligned if you wanted to
align them with the bottom of the slide
you could go back to the align command
and check a line to slide
and now when you click a line bottom
they will move to the bottom edge
and they still don't look quite right
even though they're aligned they're not
the same distance from one another to
fix that we'll need to distribute the
objects go back to the align command and
then select distribute horizontally
and now they look perfect let's look at
another example
I have three pictures of computers and
also a shape that I've formatted to look
like a tabletop and I want the computers
to look like they're sitting on the
table but if I overlap the objects the
shape is now covering up the computers
and that's not what I want whenever you
have overlapping objects they have a
specific ordering and sometimes you'll
need to change it to get everything to
look right
on the format tab there is a bring
forward command and a send backward
command if I click send backward it only
moves the shape behind one of the
computers I could keep clicking send
backward until it's in the very back or
I can click the drop down arrow next to
it and select send to back
and now I'm just going to move the
computers a little bit
and there's just one more thing I want
to change here I'd like to flip this
computer around so it's facing the other
way the rotate and flip options are on
the format tab
but since I'm on the Home tab I'm going
to go ahead and use the arrange command
which has the same arrangement options
as the format tab
go down to rotate and select flip
horizontal
I finally have all of these objects
arranged exactly how I want them and I
don't want them to change I'm going to
group the objects into one big object
select all of the objects that you want
a group and then click on a range and
then group and again you can do this
from the format tab if you prefer but
it's up to you now we have a grouped
object and you can move it or even
resize it and everything will stay
together practice using the different
arrangement options and once you're
comfortable with them you'll be able to
create more complex presentations that
have lots of pictures shapes and other
objects like that you just saw
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