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Old 06-18-2011, 11:58 AM
TdeV TdeV is offline Positioning drawing elements in Powerpoint Windows XP Positioning drawing elements in Powerpoint Office 2007
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When I first started using the Arrange button, it seemed to arrange separate images correctly which it is no longer doing. Perhaps I have inadvertently set some option somewhere.



What I would like to do:
  • use arrange to vertically align boxes (objects created with drawing tool) where the alignment distributes between the top and bottom selected boxes. I.e. if I select 4 boxes, and the if the top box is 2.13" from the top of the slide, and the bottom is 5.13" from the top of the slide, I want vertical alignment to distribute all 4 boxes evenly between 2.13" and 5.13". How alignment works now is that the 4 boxes are being distributed between top and bottom of entire slide (page).
  • use "align to top" to align currently selected boxes to the topmost box. Alignment is currently aligning to the top of the slide (page).
[I have some idea that drawing objects on-top-of/inside a text frame produces different results from drawing objects on-top-of no frame at all.]

Can you help?

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Old 06-18-2011, 12:05 PM
TdeV TdeV is offline Positioning drawing elements in Powerpoint Windows XP Positioning drawing elements in Powerpoint Office 2007
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Also, does anyone have any tricks for decreasing the space between two selected elements (drawing shapes), i.e. CTRL + to increase?
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On my projects, I click on the item, or the text box (if item is a text), then click on ARRANGE, ALIGN, and ALIGN MIDDLE. That set the item in the vertical middle of the slide. From there, you make sure the items on top and bottom are in the right place to make it look right. I guess what I am actually doing is aligning the top and bottom equally from the middle, but it works, and self adjusts depending on projection size.
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