WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:11.090 --> 00:00:15.340 Most publications - even simple ones like this business card - are made up of several 00:00:15.340 --> 00:00:21.240 different objects, including text boxes, shapes, and other graphics. Knowing how to arrange 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:25.730 these objects is an important part of using Publisher. In this video, we'll take a look 00:00:25.730 --> 00:00:28.080 at several different strategies. 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:32.260 Let's begin with these four shapes. Right now, they're all placed kind of randomly on 00:00:32.260 --> 00:00:36.970 the page, but I'd rather have them lined up in a row. Of course, I could try to line them 00:00:36.970 --> 00:00:40.900 up manually - or I could get Publisher to do it for me. 00:00:40.900 --> 00:00:45.340 The first thing you'll need to do is select the objects you want to align. Just hold Shift 00:00:45.340 --> 00:00:51.760 on your keyboard while you click - or click and drag to make a selection box. When you 00:00:51.760 --> 00:00:55.120 let go, all of the objects will be selected. 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:01.420 Now we can navigate to the Drawing Tools Format tab, and then click the Align command. You'll 00:01:01.420 --> 00:01:06.170 have six different options to choose from. I'm going to go with Align Right, which will 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:09.610 line the objects up along the right edge. 00:01:09.610 --> 00:01:13.700 That didn't align them to the right side of the page, though. If you wanted to do that, 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:20.009 you could go back to the Align command, and this time, select Relative to Margins. Now 00:01:20.009 --> 00:01:25.369 when we choose the very same option - Align Right - everything moves to the right margin 00:01:25.369 --> 00:01:29.800 instead. In this example, that's very edge of the page. 00:01:29.800 --> 00:01:33.619 There's one more thing I'd like to change that can be done just as easily. Notice how 00:01:33.619 --> 00:01:38.440 the shapes are aligned, but they're not quite spaced evenly? To fix that, go to the Align 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:43.340 command again, then choose Distribute Vertically. 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:45.030 Perfect! 00:01:45.030 --> 00:01:48.990 Now that I have these shapes exactly the way I want them, I'm going to group them into 00:01:48.990 --> 00:01:54.209 one big object, so they always stay together. Just make sure you have each of your objects 00:01:54.209 --> 00:01:57.170 selected, then click the Group command. 00:01:57.170 --> 00:02:02.959 Now we have a single grouped object that you can move or resize any way you like. See 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.459 how it works? 00:02:06.459 --> 00:02:10.610 Let's take a look at one more technique for arranging objects. This one's really going 00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:17.610 to come in handy for taking the background I have on the front of my business card - and 00:02:17.819 --> 00:02:24.819 pasting it here on the back. As you can see, the problem is that it's overlapping the rest 00:02:25.349 --> 00:02:29.959 of the card, no matter where I move it. This can happen any time you have multiple objects, 00:02:29.959 --> 00:02:32.180 depending on the order they're in. 00:02:32.180 --> 00:02:37.890 To change the order of an object, make sure it's selected, then go to the Format tab. 00:02:37.890 --> 00:02:42.840 You have two commands to choose from: Bring Forward, or Send Backward, depending on what 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:48.950 you need. If I click Send Backward, the image moves back only one level - basically, behind 00:02:48.950 --> 00:02:53.769 the text box; the shapes on the right are still obscured. If I click the drop-down arrow 00:02:53.769 --> 00:02:59.239 instead, I can choose Send to Back - and that takes care of it. 00:02:59.239 --> 00:03:03.299 Now everything is perfectly aligned and in the right order - without a lot of time and 00:03:03.299 --> 00:03:08.609 effort. Take some time to practice, and you'll be able to create complex publications too, 00:03:08.609 --> 00:03:15.609 with lots of pictures, shapes, and other objects.