A clever use of these is to ensure that the object you’ve created is a perfect square or not.Īnother cool keyboard shortcut is the arrow key to move around objects. Grid lines can’t really replace the alignment functionality of Smart Guide, but they are pretty close. You can also use these grid lines to see exactly how much space and where in your presentation are your objects located. Hitting Shift key simultaneously with F9 will give you direct access to it. You can use this as your guiding parameter. Like the grid that will basically lay out a nice row of squares for you. Of course, there are other ways to align your objects perfectly in PowerPoint. This used to be very hard to do in earlier versions, now it’s a matter of dragging it and waiting for Smart Guide to help you along. This not only works with your mouse but if you have a touchscreen device, it works well with that too. Till you don’t see this arrow, keep finely adjusting your new object.

By default, Smart Guide will auto-detect the new object being inserted and will show small arrow signs indicating that it is perfectly centered. If you have two objects already in your PPT and want to insert another one, but, ensuring that the new object is equidistant to both use Smart Guide.

As soon as you see them, you can align your objects accordingly. Simply drag an object and bring it in close proximity of the other object and you shall see red dotted lines which act as guiding lines to tell you where you need to place your object.

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