How do you align text and objects on different slides so
they are in the same place . Moveable guides , and
paste in place would be a good start... can'T microsoft do
anything properly???

I dunno. It depends on the situation.

There's many ways to do it, the most obvious being use of the master.

If that's not applicable (in your case, I have no idea), then copy the
object or textbox from one slide and paste it into the other and it will
paste exactly where the other was (provided it doesn't already exist on that
slide, in which case two nudges up and two left will position it.).

Another common method is to set up a slide with elements in place and then
copy the slide when another is needed and then modify it.

In complex situations, the object's properties will show the exact placement
numerically and those numbers can be transposed to the properties of another
object.

You can also simply copy the slide that exists and then change what you want
changed in the pasted slide which leaves the objects in the same position.

In strange situations you might draw a line against the desired object with
Snap To Shape on the model slide, copy it and then paste it into the
unfinished slide as a marker. Draw a new textbox or other object and let
Snap To Shape line it up, then delete the lines.

But these are just off the top of my head.

--
-Robert Lerner


"murray" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How do you align text and objects on different slides so
> they are in the same place . Moveable guides , and
> paste in place would be a good start... can'T microsoft do
> anything properly???

Have you tried the guides? See #3 at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorial...uicktricks.htm
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003


"murray" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How do you align text and objects on different slides so
> they are in the same place . Moveable guides , and
> paste in place would be a good start... can'T microsoft do
> anything properly???

> How do you align text and objects on different slides so
> they are in the same place . Moveable guides , and
> paste in place would be a good start... can'T microsoft do
> anything properly???

Have you tried the Help feature? It might be fairer to give that a shot
before starting in kicking MS.

Type "guide" into the index and in the top two entries that come up, you
learn that you can turn on guides with View, Guides.

On the other hand, if MS didn't hide stuff from you on the menus, you
wouldn't even need Help, it'd be pretty obvious where to find what you need.
To that end, choose Tools, Customize and on the Options tab, remove the
check next to "Menus show recently used commands first". That turns off the
Hide and Seek game PPT wants to play with you.

Hold down Ctrl while you drag one of the existing guides to get another.
You can have up to 8 horizontal and 8 vertical guides.

Describe what you mean by "paste in place". There's probably an easy way to
get what you want, we just need to know what it is (and what version of PPT
you're using).