Alignment of objects

[Guest]

Found this Visio feature extremely useful and would like to suggest the same
feature is made available in Powerpoint:

Align objects by reference to first object selected. Meaning, if I want my
objects to be Aligned - Centre to a particular object, I select that first
before selecting the others and applying the "Alignment".



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[Guest]

Is it a lot different from this:
http://www.pptmagic.com/articles/perfectlineup.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Is it a lot different from this:
http://www.pptmagic.com/articles/perfectlineup.htm

Quite different, and I'll add my "AMEN" to the suggestion.

When you left-align in PPT, it aligns all selected shapes to the LEFTMOST
shape. Top-align aligns all to topmost shape and so on.

It's more flexible to let the user pick the align-to shape as the first member
of a selection, then align any other shapes in the selection TO that shape.

IOW, let the wetware decide where it wants its shapes to go today.

 

[Guest]

I agree, it is different, for this reason as well:

Often you have object A correctly positioned in place and want to align
object B along the centreline of object A. However, sometimes PowerPoint
moves object A instead of object B! I can't tell how it chooses which object
to move - it doesn't make a diffence if you select object A or B first either.

Any suggestions? Or do we wait for Office 2010?

Thanks for your time,

Atreides

 

[Jean-Pierre FORESTIER]

I think they align at mid path

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Jean-Pierre FORESTIER Microsoft MVP PowerPoint
Auteur de PowerPoint 2002 chez Micro Application

I agree, it is different, for this reason as well:

Often you have object A correctly positioned in place and want to align
object B along the centreline of object A. However, sometimes PowerPoint
moves object A instead of object B! I can't tell how it chooses which object
to move - it doesn't make a diffence if you select object A or B first either.

Any suggestions? Or do we wait for Office 2010?

Thanks for your time,

Atreides

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I agree, it is different, for this reason as well:

Often you have object A correctly positioned in place and want to align
object B along the centreline of object A. However, sometimes PowerPoint
moves object A instead of object B! I can't tell how it chooses which object
to move - it doesn't make a diffence if you select object A or B first either.

No, unfortunately not. When you select a bunch of shapes and choose Align Left, it
aligns all of them with the leftmost of the shapes. Choose Align Right and it
lines the right side of each shape with the right side of the rightmost shape.

Any suggestions? Or do we wait for Office 2010?

I keep toying with the idea of an add-in that'd do a better job of this but haven't
gotten the tuits yet.