most publications even simple ones like
this business card are made up of
several different objects including text
boxes shapes and other graphics knowing
how to arrange these objects is an
important part of using publisher in
this video we'll take a look at several
different strategies let's begin with
these four shapes right now they're all
placed kind of randomly on the page but
I'd rather have them lined up in a row
of course I could try to line them up
manually or I could get publisher to do
it for me
the first thing you'll need to do is
select the objects you want to align
just hold shift on your keyboard while
you click or click and drag to make a
selection box when you let go all of the
objects will be selected now we can
navigate to the drawing tools format tab
and then click the align command you'll
have six different options to choose
from I'm going to go with a line right
which will line the objects up along the
right edge that didn't align them to the
right side of the page though if you
wanted to do that you could go back to
the align command and this time select
relative to margins now when we choose
the very same option align right
everything moves to the right margin
instead in this example that's the very
edge of the page there's one more thing
I'd like to change that can be done just
as easily notice how the shapes are
aligned but they're not quite spaced
evenly to fix that go to the align
command again then choose distribute
vertically perfect now that I have these
shapes exactly the way I want them I'm
going to group them into one big object
so they always stay together just make
sure you have each of your objects
selected then click the group command
now we have a single grouped object that
you can move or resize any way you like
see how it works
let's take a look at one more technique
for arranging objects
this one's really going to come in handy
for taking the background I have on the
front of my business card
and pasting it here on the back as you
can see the problem is that it's
overlapping the rest of the card no
matter where I move it this can happen
anytime you have multiple objects
depending on the order they're in to
change the order of an object make sure
it's selected then go to the format tab
you have two commands to choose from
bring forward or send backward depending
on what you need if I click send
backward the image moves back only one
level basically behind the text box the
shapes on the right are still obscured
if I click the drop-down arrow instead I
can choose send to back and that takes
care of it now everything is perfectly
aligned and in the right order without a
lot of time and effort take some time to
practice and you'll be able to create
complex publications too with lots of
pictures shapes and other objects
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