Basic Operations on Objects on Slides in PowerPoint

This guide provides a practical overview of Basic Operations on Objects on Slides in PowerPoint, including its main features, benefits, limitations, and important considerations.

The example on Silde has 2 objects as shown:

The operation of working with 2 objects on Silde includes:

1. Move the object to a new location.

- To move an object to a new position, just click on the object -> hold and move the object to the desired position:

2. Copy the object to another page.

Step 1: Click on the object you want to copy -> right-click and select Copy ( or press Ctrl + C):

Step 2: Move to Slide to paste -> right-click and select Paste ( or press Ctrl + V):

3. Display the ruler on the slide.

- To display a ruler on a slide in order to align the position of the objects you just right-click the slide to display a ruler -> select Ruler:

- Display Ruler helps you align objects easily.

- In case you do not want to display the Ruler bar to do the same thing and uncheck the checkbox in Ruler.

4. Display the grid on the slide.

- Similar to the display of the Ruler bar -> right click on the silde and select Grid and Guides. you can choose to display only the horizontal or vertical grid bar or the example here shows both horizontal and vertical grid and select Gridline:

- Results after grid display:

5. Edit the position of 2 objects.

- For example, there are 2 objects with the same position:

- You want the front object hidden behind the object after it to do the following: Right-click the front object -> select Send to back -> Send to Back:

- If you click on the object after it -> click on Bring to Front -> Bring to Front

- Results 2 subjects:

So depending on the location of the selected object, choose Send to or Bring to accordingly.

6. Align the object against the Slide.

- Click on the object to be aligned -> Home -> Drawing -> Align -> select the type of position for the object, for example, select the object in the middle of the Slide and click Align Center:

7. Group objects in Slide.

- You have too many objects on 1 Slide, you want to group them into 1 object to facilitate the moving and editing done as follows:

+ Select all the objects you want to group (by pressing and holding Ctrl key while clicking and selecting objects, or using the drag-and-drop operation) -> right-click on one of the objects -> select Group - > Group:

- Results 2 objects are grouped into 1 object:

- In case you want to separate right-click objects into grouped objects -> Group -> UnGroup:

8. Rotate the object.

- Right-click the object to rotate -> Rotate -> select the rotation angle available support or click More Rotation Options to select other rotation angle:

- The Format Picture dialog box appears -> enter the rotation angle in Rotation -> the object has been rotated according to the set angle:

The above is a detailed guide of basic operations with objects on Slide in PowerPoint 2013.

Good luck!