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In some of your presentations, you're probably
going to have pictures, shapes, and text boxes

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all on the same slide. And to get everything
to look right, you'll need to know how to

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arrange the objects. We're going to go over
the different options that you have.

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In this example, I have several copies of
the same picture, and right now they're in

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kind of a random arrangement. I want to align
them so that they're all in a row. I could

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drag each one individually, but I can also
get PowerPoint to align them for me.

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You'll first need to select all the objects
that you want to align. Just click and drag

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over the objects to make a selection box...
Once you let go, all of the items will be

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selected.

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Go to the Format tab and click the Align command...
You'll have six different alignment options.

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I'm going to choose Align Bottom. This has
aligned the bottom edges of each object. Now

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they didn't move to the bottom of the slide,
they only moved just enough to be aligned.

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If you wanted to align them with the bottom
of the slide, you could go back to the Align

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command, and check Align to Slide, and now
when you click align Bottom, they'll move

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to the bottom edge.

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Now they still don't look quite right. Even
though they're aligned, they're not the same

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distance from one another. To fix that, we'll
need to Distribute the objects. Go back to

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the Align command... And then select Distribute
horizontally... And now they look perfect.

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Let's look at another example. Here I have
a few objects behind a colored rectangle.

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I want the objects to be in front so that
the rectangle becomes the background. Whenever

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you have overlapping objects they have a specific
ordering, and sometimes you'll need to change

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it to get everything to look right.

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On the Format tab, there's a Bring Forward
command and a Send Backward command. If I

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click Send Backward... it moves the shape
back one level. If there are multiple objects

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on the slide, you may need to click the command
several times to get the look you want. Or

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you can click Send To Back and the selected
object will move behind all the other objects.

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And there's just one more thing I want to
change here: I'd like to flip this image around

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so that it's facing the other way. The rotate
and flip options are on the Format tab, but

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since I'm on the Home tab, I'm going to go
ahead and use the Arrange command, which has

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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, and I don't want

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them to change. I'm going to group the objects
into one big object. Select all of the objects

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that you want to group... And then click on
Arrange... and then Group. And again, you

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can do this from the Format tab if you prefer;
it's up to you.

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Now, we have a grouped object, and you can
move it or even resize it, and everything

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will stay together.

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Practice using the different arrangement options,
and once you're comfortable with them, you'll

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be able to create more complex presentations
that have lots of pictures, shapes, and other

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objects.