How To Align And Distribute Graphic Objects On A PowerPoint Slide

If you have been trying to manually align graphical objects including pictures, clipart, geometric shapes you have drawn in PowerPoint slides, you may have not realized that this is a difficult task. PowerPoint integrates a facility which is dedicated to simplify the process of aligning and even distributing objects on a slide.

Often when I am in the classroom, many students ask me how to automatically align objects on a slide, as when they use their mouse they go crazy to move the different objects from a pixel to another one in the slide.

Especially elder people find this very difficult since they do not use the zoom and moving the mouse around the slide is very tiresome and sometimes painful for them.

To facilitate these people's task, I have prepared some essential steps to align some objects on a slide. These steps are valid for PowerPoint 2002 and 2003.

If you want to distribute a set of graphic objects on a slide while keeping the exact same space between them, you need to first select the objects to be aligned and distributed

then to do the following:

1. Click on Draw on the Drawing toolbar, then Align or Distribute

   
   



2. Select the last command: Relative to Slide to arrange objects equally distant from one to each other in relation to the entire slide.

   
   



3. Choose the desired alignment, for example: Align Middle

   
   




4. Choose the desired distribution, for example: Distribute Horizontally

   

   
   

Using this technique you will be able to align different objects automatically and very easily.

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posted by on Sunday, January 30 2005
Tuesday, January 15 2008

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