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In some of your presentations, you're probably
going to have pictures,

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shapes, and text boxes all on the same slide.

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And to get everything to look right, you'll
need

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to know how to arrange the objects.

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We're going to go over the different options
that

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you have.

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In this example, I have several copies of
the same

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picture,

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and right now they're in kind of a
random arrangement,

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and I want to align them so that
they're all in a row.

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I could drag each one individually,

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but I can also get PowerPoint to align them
for

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me.

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You'll first need to select all of the objects
that you want to align.

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Just click and drag over the objects to make
a

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selection box.

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When you let go, all of them will be selected.

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Go to the Format tab and click the Align command.

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You'll have six different alignment options.

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I'm going to choose Align Bottom.

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This has aligned the bottom edges of each
object.

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Now they didn't move to the bottom of the
slide,

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they only moved just enough to be aligned.

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If you wanted to align them with the
bottom of the slide,

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you could go back to the Align command, and
check Align to Slide,

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and now when you click align
Bottom, they will move to the bottom edge.

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Now they still don't look quite right.

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Even though they're aligned, they are not
the same

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distance from one another.

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To fix that, we'll need to Distribute the
objects.

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Go back to the Align command.

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And then select Distribute horizontally.

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And now they look perfect.

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Let's look at another example.

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Here I have three pictures of computers,

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and also a shape that I've formatted to look
like a table top.

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And I want the computers to look like they're
sitting on the table.

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But if I overlap the objects, the shape is
now

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covering up the computers,

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and that's not what I want.

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Whenever you have overlapping objects, they
have a

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specific ordering,

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and sometimes you'll need to
change it to get everything to look right.

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On the Format tab, there is a Bring Forward
command and a Send Backward command.

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If I click Send Backward, it only moves the
shape

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behind one of the computers.

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I could keep clicking Send Backward until
it's in

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the very back,

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or I can click the drop-down arrow
next to it and select Send to Back.

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Now I'm just going to move the computers a
little

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bit.

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And there's just one more thing I
want to change here:

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I'd like to flip this computer around so
it's facing the other way.

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The rotate and flip options are on the Format
tab,

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but since I'm on the Home tab,

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I'm going to go
ahead and use the Arrange command,

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which has the
same arrangement options as the Format tab.

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Go down to Rotate, and select Flip Horizontal.

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I finally have all of these objects arranged
exactly how I want them,

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and I don't want them to
change.

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I'm going to group the objects into one big
object.

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Select all of the objects that you want to
group.

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And then click on Arrange, and then Group.

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And again, you can do this from the Format
tab if

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you prefer; it's up to you.

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Now, we have a grouped object,
and you can move it,

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or even resize it,

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and everything will stay
together.

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Practice using the different arrangement options,

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and once you're comfortable with them, you'll
be

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able to create more complex presentations

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that have lots of pictures, shapes,
and other objects.