In this slide we have three rectangular boxes.
Let's say that we would like to have all three of them aligned.
We can choose whether to align them with respect to the top box whether to align them with respect to
the box in the middle or align them to the bottom in order to do any of these operations.
I'll select the three boxes and click on the Format tab where we can find the align button I'll click
on it and choose that type of alignment that is needed.
Let's say that we want to have all three boxes on the top.
Therefore I'll pick a line top the three boxes are perfectly aligned.
As a result of entering this command we can also align the three objects horizontally to the right to
the left and in the center.
Let's provide an example of horizontal alignment.
I'll select the three boxes and click a line to the left and all three of them are aligned with respect
to the left most box.
There are three ways to use the align commands.
We already saw the first way using the button which is located in the Format tab with this method.
We had to use the mouse in order to access the Format tab which makes the whole process longer and time
consuming.
Quick access Toolbar Buttons are a viable alternative in the previous video we saw how to add the most
frequently used commands to the quick access toolbar.
The advantage of this approach is that the user does not have to go through multiple tabs and menus
in order to find the commands that he needs.
A third option is to use a keyboard shortcut.
I will move the three elements and redo the same operation by using a keyboard shortcut.
OK do you remember how this is done.
We already saw how to use keyboard shortcuts during our second lesson.
I can activate the tabs of the PowerPoint ribbon by pressing the altar key.
Then I simply trace the letters assigned to each of the menus I will select H in order to access the
Home tab and then I will select G which corresponds to the arrange button.
Here we will have to press a which stands for a line and finally press the L letter in order to align
the three items to the left.
As you can see some of the shortcuts in PowerPoint are very long and can be difficult to remember.
You can choose the approach that best suits you quick access Toolbar Buttons seem like a good combination.
In terms of speed and ease of use we learned how to align objects in our slides.
Let's go a step further and see how to distribute objects evenly in the slide that you see.
We have three rectangular boxes containing text as you can see they are not distributed evenly on the
sheet.
In order to do that we will have to select them and access the Format tab.
Once we are there we can click on a line and in the dropdown list we will choose distribute horizontally
PowerPoint perfectly distributes the three objects leaving an equal amount of space between them the
same thing can be done when we have to distribute objects vertically in the next slide.
We have three objects that have to be aligned vertically in order to do that.
I will select the objects access the aligned menu and select distribute vertically.
Here is the result an equal amount of vertical space between each of the three boxes.
This is how we can align and distribute objects in PowerPoint.
Thank you for watching.