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Using Drawing Guides to Precisely Align Objects in Powerpoint 2007

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When a presentation deadline is looming, one of the first slide design tweaks that many people skip is the alignment of slide objects. They might perform a quick click-and-drag to get objects more or less in line with each other, but getting the alignment exact is (they think) a fiddly, time-consuming, unproductive chore. That’s a big mistake, in my mind, because what’s the first thing you notice in such a presentation? Right: the misaligned objects.

You can make your presentation look more professional by taking minimal extra time to get objects properly aligned. Yes, clicking-and-dragging to align things is hard and not always successful, but the good news is that PowerPoint offers quite an array of tools that take the drudgery and difficulty out of aligning objects.

Your main alignment tools are on the Align menu, which displays in the Format tab when you select the objects with which you want to work. The Align menu has eight commands you can use:

Align Left-Click this command to align the objects on the left edges of their frames. The objects are aligned with the leftmost object.
Align Center-Click this command to align the objects on the horizontal center of their frames. The objects are aligned on a point halfway between the leftmost and rightmost object.
Align Right-Click this command to align the objects on the right edges of their frames. The objects are aligned with the rightmost object.
Align Top-Click this command to align the objects on the top edges of their frames. The objects are aligned with the topmost object. The objects are aligned on a point halfway between the topmost and bottommost object.
Align Middle-Click this command to align the objects on the vertical middle of their frames.
Align Bottom-Click this command to align the objects on the bottom edges of their frames. The objects are aligned with the bottommost object.
Distribute Horizontally-Click this command to align the objects so that they are evenly spaced horizontally.
Distribute Vertically-Click this command to align the objects so that they are evenly spaced vertically.

Another useful alignment tool are the drawing guides, which are dashed lines-one horizonÂtal line and one vertical line-that are located in the slide area. When you use your mouse to drag an object near one of the drawing guides, PowerPoint snaps the object to the line.

The easiest way to add the drawing guides to the slide area is to press Alt+F9. (If you prefer the hard way, right-click an empty part of a slide, click Grid and Guides, activate the Display Drawing Guides On Screen check box, and then click OK.) You can then click and drag the guides to position them where you want. You can also use the following techÂniques to work with the guides:

To add another guide, hold down Ctrl and then click and drag an existing guide.
To delete an extra guide, click and drag it to any edge of the current slide.

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At times, you might need to make subtle adjustments to the position of one object relative to another, such as when you’re overlaying images to achieve an effect. In such cases, the Align comÂmands and the drawing guides don’t help.To position an object precisely,use your mouse to drag the object into its approximate position and then do one of the following:

Press the left, right, up, or down arrow key.This tells PowerPoint to nudge the object in the arrow’s direction by 0.083 inches (one twelfth of an inch),which is the default grid spacing.To change this value, right-click an empty part of a slide, click Grid and Guides, and then use the Spacing combo box to type or select the grid spacing you want to use.

Hold down Ctrl and press the left,right,up,or down arrow key.This tells PowerPoint to nudge the object in the arrow’s direction by one pixel.

Figure 1 shows the drawing guides on a slide.