Alignment of shapes

[Wade]

Hi all,

I am always creating process diagrams for people in the company and each one
is different.

What I would like to know is this:

I normally have a lot of boxes that are the same size and I need them to
line up evenly on a part of the slide. Is there a way to select all the
boxes in question and have the gaps evenly spaced automatically?

I currently use grid lines and zoom in by 200% and then use my eye to make
them even. I was hoping there was a more efficient way to do this.

Thanks in advance,
Wade

 

[Echo S]

Yes, you can select the objects and use the distribution tools. They are in
the Align and Distrubution tool set, but where that is depends on your
version of PPT.

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[John Wilson]

As Echo says you should probably select them with ctrl click and use the
align tools Format tab in 2007 or drawing toolbar in 2003/3.

You might like to play with this trick though also if the shapes are identical

Place the first shape. Ctrl D to duplicate it. Drag this shape to exactly
where you need it.

Ctrl D again will auto place more shapes in the correct position
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