From the course: PowerPoint 2019 Essential Training
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Align objects using the Arrange tool
From the course: PowerPoint 2019 Essential Training
Align objects using the Arrange tool
- [Instructor] Remember this slide? Watch how quickly I can make a professional looking slide from these three updates that currently look like they were just dumped on the screen. Instead of the old vertical bulleted list that used to be so popular, let's make a nice horizontal display and end by putting images over them. The first thing that I'm going to do is select each text box and click and drag with my mouse to resize it and just make it a little bit chunky sized. Now I will try to eyeball it a little bit. I'll just get them vaguely aligned. And it doesn't have to be perfect. That's the point. PowerPoint can do this for me. Now I could do it myself manually. And there will be times when you'll need to. I'll change to the view ribbon tab to find those tools. You can turn on a ruler. That might help you. I can turn on guides, which gives you a crosshair in the center of the slide. And finally, grid lines. These help you align objects on the slide. I'm going to show you a way that…
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Add images3m 50s
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Work with shapes3m 38s
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Format and add effects to objects3m 42s
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Align objects using the Arrange tool4m 26s
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Understand object layering4m 3s
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Group objects and use Format Painter4m 6s
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Remove the background from pictures2m 9s
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Merge and group shapes4m 5s
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Crop images to shapes2m 17s
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