- [Instructor] One way to make your presentations
look nice and crisp is to have everything perfectly aligned.
Now, PowerPoint has a number of tools that let you do this.
So let's go down to slide number five,
and it looks something like this.
Now this has a bunch of text that needs to be aligned.
So we want to align them, basically,
horizontally across the screen.
So I'm going to go ahead and select each text box,
scale it down, and basically roughly position it.
Now we don't have to be precise with this.
So I can basically just move it
so that it's in the general vicinity of where I want it.
Now, if I wanted to align this manually,
I could go to the View menu,
and we have a ruler, grid lines,
and guides that we can use
to actually position things exactly where we want.
But, let's go ahead and let PowerPoint do that for us.
So I'm going to select all of these,
and then go to the Home ribbon,
and under Arrange, I want to do Align.
Now there's two options here at the bottom.
One is Align to Slide,
which means we're going to align everything
to the slide itself.
But we just want to align these selected objects.
So I want to make sure
that that is checked, and then select this again.
And we want to Align Top.
Now this will align all of these objects
to each other along the top.
Select it again, do Align,
and this time we're going to select Align To Slide
because we want to align this horizontally to the slides.
So select Distribute Horizontally,
and that will center them and align them to the slide.
Now I'm going to go ahead
and select these and move them down.
And then, let's go ahead and change some colors here.
So I'm actually going to left-click
and drag everything in this slide,
and I'm going to change my text color to a light gray.
Click off of these, go into Design,
Format Background, and then under Color,
we're just going to make that black.
So this pops a little bit more.
So let's go ahead and add in some images.
So let's go to Insert, Pictures, This Device,
and then you'll see we have three images here titled Drone.
So I'm going to Shift + select all of these, and do Insert.
Now these come in fairly big.
Now we want to scale them down
so that they fit in the space that we created.
So I'm going to hold down Shift,
and because all of them are selected,
scaling one will scale all of them.
So I'm going to go ahead and make sure I scale all
of them, and then just drag that towards the middle.
And now want to align these horizontally along the slide.
So, let's go back to Home.
Under Arrange, Align,
we want to make sure we have Align To Slide checked,
Distribute Horizontally.
Now these aren't vertically aligned.
So again, we want to Align,
Align Selected Objects, Arrange, Align, Align Top.
So now I have these all aligned.
Now, one of the things I didn't have
is because I did it automatically,
this one actually is in the wrong place.
So I'm going to go ahead and move that over,
select this one, move it over.
Now when I move it over,
you can see I get these red guidelines,
and that's another way to arrange these.
So as long as I have the red guidelines,
I can align them to each other as well as to the slide.
So there are a number of options
for aligning objects in PowerPoint.
And if you get things perfectly aligned,
your slides will look extra sharp.