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pictures text boxes and shapes are all
consent
in word sometimes you need a little help
arranging these objects to get your
document to look the way you want take
these four text boxes for example 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
word to do it for me the first thing
you'll need to do is select the objects
you want to align to select them all at
once just hold shift on your keyboard
while you click next we can navigate to
the format tab and click the align
command you'll have several different
options to choose from ranging from
vertical to horizontal alignment you can
also choose whether to align the objects
to the page to the margin or to each
other which is the default setting this
time I'm going to go with a line right
and now the objects are aligned to each
other along the right edge there's
another thing I'd like to change that
can be done just as easily notice how
the shapes are lined up but they're not
quite evenly spaced to fix that go to
the align command again then choose
distribute vertically perfect now that I
have these objects arranged the way I
want I'm going to group them so they
always stay together just make sure you
have each of your objects selected then
click the group command and choose group
now we have a single grouped object that
we can move or resize any way we want
see how it works
let's take a look at a few more
techniques I've gone ahead and added the
picture I want to use as part of my
background I've also changed the text
wrapping setting to in front of text to
make it easier to move the picture
around the page the problem is that it's
overlapping the rest of the objects in
the document to the point where we can't
even see them
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 business name
the text boxes on the right are still
obscured if we click the drop-down arrow
instead we can choose send to back and
that takes care of it the last thing I'd
like to do is rotate or flip the picture
so it appears in Reverse to do this
click the rotate command then choose
flip horizontal now we can see the
bubbles that were hidden behind the text
boxes on the right at this point
everything is perfectly aligned and
arranged in the right order so I'm happy
with my document practice using these
tools on your own and you'll be able to
work with objects in all kinds of
situations
you