Pictures, text boxes, and shapes are all considered objects in PowerPoint. ... 00:08
Sometimes you may need a little help arranging these objects to get your ... 00:13
slides to look exactly the way you want. ... 00:17
For example, take a look at the different pictures on this slide. ... 00:19
Right now they're placed kind of randomly but I'd rather have them lined up in a row. ... 00:23
Of course, I could try to do this manually or I can get PowerPoint to do it for me! ... 00:29
The first thing you need to do is select the objects. ... 00:35
To select all of them at once, just hold Shift on your keyboard while you click. ... 00:40
Next, we'll go the Format tab and click the Align command. ... 00:47
You have several different options to choose from ranging from vertical to horizontal alignment. ... 00:52
You can also choose whether to align the objects to the slide or to each other, ... 00:59
which is the default setting when you select multiple objects like this. ... 01:03
This time I'm going to go with Align Bottom ... 01:08
And now the objects are aligned with one another along their bottom edge. ... 01:13
Note that they didn't move all the way to the bottom of the slide ... 01:18
they just moved enough to be aligned with one another. ... 01:22
Now if we did want to align them with the side we could ... 01:25
go back to the Align command and select Align to Slide. ... 01:28
And now if I click Align Middle ... 01:33
they move to the exact middle of the slide. ... 01:38
There's another thing I'd like to change that can be done just as easily. ... 01:41
Notice how the shapes are lined up but they're not quite evenly spaced? ... 01:46
To fix that, we will need to distribute the objects ... 01:50
First, we'll go back to the Align command and choose Align Selected Objects. ... 01:54
That's because we only want to put an equal amount of space between each picture. ... 02:00
We don't want to spread them out equally across the whole slide. ... 02:04
Next we'll choose Distribute Horizontally ... 02:10
And there we go! ... 02:15
Now the pictures have the same amount of space between one another. ... 02:17
Now that I have these objects arranged to the way I want, ... 02:21
I'm going to group them so that they always stay together. ... 02:25
Just make sure you have each of your objects selected, then click the Group command... ... 02:29
and choose Group. ... 02:34
Now we had a single grouped object that we can move and resize anyway we want ... 02:36
See how each shape in the group does the same thing? ... 02:44
And if you ever want to ungroup your objects, just select Group>Ungroup. ... 02:49
You know, I think I'd also like to ... 02:57
add a new shape to this slide, so I'll go to the Insert tab and click the Shapes command. ... 02:59
This one looks pretty good. ... 03:08
And I'll just select a different shape style to make it look the way I want. ... 03:15
Hmm...this looks OK ... 03:24
but what I'd really like is to have the arrow shape behind all the pictures. ... 03:26
Right now it's overlapping and we really can't see them very well. ... 03:31
This can happen any time you have multiple objects, depending on the order they're in. ... 03:35
To change the order of an object, make sure its selected, then go to the Format tab. ... 03:40
You have two commands to choose from: Bring Forward or Send Backward ... 03:46
depending on what you need. ... 03:51
Now you may need to experiment with these options to find what you're looking for. ... 03:53
For example if I click Send Backward, this shape moves back only one level, ... 03:58
(basically behind one of the pictures) but the others are still covered up by the arrow. ... 04:03
Whenever you're working with multiple objects like this it can be helpful to ... 04:10
turn on the selection pane. ... 04:14
From here you can easily see the order of all the objects on this slide ... 04:16
and even change their order within the pane if you prefer. ... 04:21
OK, so it looks like the arrow shape is still above the other two pictures, ... 04:24
so I'm going to click the drop-down arrow here ... 04:29
and choose Send to Back...and that takes care of it! ... 04:32
If we we look at the selection pane, we can see that the shape ... 04:38
was moved to the very bottom, which is why it appears behind the pictures on the slide. ... 04:41
Finally, I am going to group these pictures with the area shape so I can ... 04:47
resize them and move them exactly where I want without changing any of this ... 04:51
other formatting I've done. ... 04:55
OK! Everything is perfectly aligned and arranged in the right order! ... 04:60
I'm really happy with the way this slide looks. ... 05:04
