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of your presentations you're probably
going to have pictures 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 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 the objects
that you want to align just click and
drag over the objects to make a
selection box once you let go all of the
items will be selected go to the format
tab and click the align command 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
align to slide and now when you click
align bottom they'll move to the bottom
edge now 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 here I
have a few objects behind a colored
rectangle I want the objects to be in
front so that the rectangle becomes the
background 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's a bring forward
command and descend
backward command if I click send
backward it moves the shape back one
level if there are multiple objects on
the slide you may need to click the
command several times to get the look
you want or you can click send to back
and the selected object will move behind
all the other objects and there's just
one more thing I want to change here I'd
like to flip this image around so that
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 so I'm going to group the objects
into one big object select all of the
objects you want to group and then click
on arrange and then group and again you
can do this from the format tab if you'd
prefer 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 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