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Creating a grid for perfect layout

Professional graphic artists create light blue grids to help them lay out their art. You can do the same with your PowerPoint slides. Grids help you see the balance and symmetry of a slide. PowerPoint can display guides that you can use to create a grid. Choose View (tab)>Guides. To add additional guides, [...]

Create a custom layout

Layouts help you lay out the components of your slide and PowerPoint comes with many of them. Here’s a sample.

slide components

Unfortunately, PowerPoint versions before 2007 and 2010 don’t have a feature to let you create custom layouts that appear in the Layout taskpane. However, you can work around this limitation [...]

Align objects perfectly

While several of my other tips mention the use of the Align feature in PowerPoint, I’ve never covered it by itself. If you insert objects on a slide and want them to be aligned, you need to know about this feature — and many people don’t; they’re still using the arrow keys.

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