If you’re giving a presentation to impress a colleague or boss (or both), you need to get it right. Imperfect. In this quest for perfection, there is a great option in Microsoft PowerPoint that will help you make a big impression. Let’s explore with Smart Guide.
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How it works
When you play around with objects (like pie charts, etc.), it’s sometimes difficult to align everything in a PPT file. If you have a lot of such objects and you want to align them perfectly, the Smart Guide feature can be your savior.
Simply drag one object and bring it close to the other and you’ll see red dotted lines that act as guides to show you where you need to place your object. As soon as you see them, you can align your objects accordingly.
Perfect positioning
If you already have two objects in your PPT and want to insert another, but make sure the new object is equidistant from both; use Smart Guides. By default, the Smart Guide will automatically detect the newly inserted object and will display small arrow signs indicating that the object is perfectly centered.
Until you don’t see this arrow, continue to refine your new object. Not only does this work with your mouse, but if you have a touchscreen device, it works fine with that as well. This used to be difficult to do in previous versions, now just drag it and wait for Smart Guide to help you.
Shortcuts and other features
Of course, there are other ways to align your objects perfectly in PowerPoint. like net will basically create a nice row of squares for you. You can use this as your instruction parameter. Fight Change key simultaneously with F9 will give you direct access to it.
You can also use these gridlines to see exactly how much space and where objects are in your presentation. Grid lines can’t really replace the Smart Guide’s alignment function, but they’re pretty close together. One clever use of these is to make sure that the object you’ve created is a perfect square.
Another cool shortcut is the arrow key to move around objects. For example, I want to move my newly created perfect square over the PPT, I just need to hold the right arrow key to move it there (as seen in the GIF above). In previous versions of MS Office, this simple step often took up a lot of time. No more.
Using the arrow keys also ensures that the object will move in a straight line, which is not always the case when dragging with the mouse.
Shoot in the net
An interesting new feature with MS Office 2013 is the ability to smoothly resize any object. In older versions it used to change bit by bit, based on grid size. You can still get it back if you want. All you need to do is navigate to SEE and then go to Grid Settings just below Notes and in the window that opens make sure Attach the object to the grid checked.
You’ll notice a very small difference here, but it’s definitely there. The lack of flexibility is perhaps felt more on touchscreen devices than on regular desktops and laptops.
Too smart for you? In the same box shown above, you can uncheck the smart guide option if you think it’s too smart for your liking. But I advise you not to do that.
become smart
As the saying goes – Work smart, not hard. I hope I’ve been able to contribute something to help you improve your productivity using MS PowerPoint. If you have any doubts, drop them in our forum.
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