How to Add Guides in PowerPoint
Your PowerPoint presentation, a collection of electronic slides, may be filled with facts and figures, data points and other information, but if you use any kind of graphics such as photos, logos or sketches, you'll want to make sure they line up properly. While PowerPoint doesn't automatically align objects, it offers guides, similar to real-life rulers, to use throughout your presentation. Keep your images lined up for a more organized and streamlined presentation appearance.
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Instructions
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Open PowerPoint. A new, blank presentation with one slide is started on the screen. To add guides to an existing PowerPoint, click the "File" tab, click "Open" and browse to the presentation. Double-click the file, which opens in the PowerPoint main screen.
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Click the "Home" tab at the top of the screen. Click the "Arrange" button on the right side of the toolbar/ribbon below the tab.
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Click the "Align" option on the drop-down menu. Click the "Grid Settings" option to open the small "Grid and Guides" window.
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Check the "Display drawing guides on screen" box under the "Guide settings" section of the window. To always have guides showing, click the "Set as Default" button. Click the "OK" button to close the "Grids and Guides" window and return to the main PowerPoint screen with a vertical and horizontal guide in place.
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Move guides to your preferred area of the slide, such as placing the vertical guide by the left margin, by hovering your cursor over the guide, clicking it and dragging it into place. Guides are not required to be left in their center-of-the-slide position.
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Drag objects on the slide to align with the guides as preferred.
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Add an additional type of guide to the slide by clicking the "View" tab and checking the "Ruler" box on the middle of the toolbar/ribbon. A vertical and horizontal ruler appears in the main pane of the screen. These do not print or show with the slide show. Drag the guidelines into exact place with the help of the ruler's inch and centimeter markings.
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Remove rulers from the screen by unchecking the "Ruler" box on the "View" tab. Remove guides from the screen by unchecking the "Display drawing guides on screen" box on the "Align," "Grid Settings" and "Grid and Guides" windows.
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