- Another way to organize objects in PowerPoint
is to group them.
So here we have this slide
and I've got a number of objects here.
I've got these icons sitting on
these rounded rectangles.
So let's say I want it to rearrange this
well in order to do that,
I would have to select both of these
and then move them at the same time.
If I were to accidentally just click on one,
I would kind of get rid of
the centering that I worked to create.
But if we want to,
we can group these so that they move as one.
So all I have to do is left click
and drag and select everything
that I want to group
and then under arrange we can group.
So now that I have this,
this looks as though it is one object in PowerPoint.
So now I can select one object and move it,
however I want.
Now we can do the same here,
I'm going to go ahead and select these two,
but instead of using the arrangement you hear,
I can right click,
and then we also have group.
Let's do that one more time.
Right-click group.
Now, if you notice there is an ungroup.
So if you don't want these to be grouped,
you can go into arrange,
ungroup or find it under the right click menu.
But I'm going to go ahead
and just keep these grouped.
Now once I have this,
I can now select these,
and it's moving as though
these are three objects,
so I can scale or move them around,
however I want.
If I want to, I can go into arrange align,
align to slide and then distribute horizontally.
And that will go ahead
and distribute them along the slide.
Now, if I want to,
I can also have groups of groups.
So if I left click and drag
and highlight all of these
and then right click to group group.
Now that looks like one big group.
And so I can scale and move that again,
however I want.
And if I want to break it apart,
I can always ungroup.
So I can right click group ungroup or
do that from the arrange menu.
So grouping is a great way
to keep the stuff on your slides organized.