How to center an image exactly without calculating, etc.?

[StargateFanFromWork]

In Paint Shop Pro, for example, I just click on a 'center vertically and
horizontally' type of button an my image is centered perfectly with no fuss,
no muss. How can I do the same in PowerPoint, pls?

Thank you.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

In PowerPoint:

1. Select your image, shape or any other element.

2. In the Draw toolbar, choose Draw | Align or Distribute | Relative to
Slide

3. Then choose Draw | Align or Distribute | Distribute Horizontally

4. Finally, choose Draw | Align or Distribute | Distribute Vertically.

You might want to drag the Align controls off the Draw menu to make it a
floating toolbar.

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[StargateFanFromWork]

In PowerPoint:

1. Select your image, shape or any other element.

2. In the Draw toolbar, choose Draw | Align or Distribute | Relative to
Slide

3. Then choose Draw | Align or Distribute | Distribute Horizontally

4. Finally, choose Draw | Align or Distribute | Distribute Vertically.

You might want to drag the Align controls off the Draw menu to make it a
floating toolbar.

Thank you! I found them. At first they wouldn't work because I had just
paste the picture in. Fortunately I tried inserting the clipart from a file
rather than the above and that made the controls available.

I keep searching for things in MS help files in general but find it quite
tricky to get answers. This should have come up in my search but all I got
was the position instructions from the "format picture" menu and nothing
about the draw one.

Thanks for this. Much appreciated.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

In Paint Shop Pro, for example, I just click on a 'center vertically and
horizontally' type of button an my image is centered perfectly with no fuss,
no muss. How can I do the same in PowerPoint, pls?

What Geetesh said. Or the simpler way

Get a copy of our free PPTools Starter Set, which includes a button to pick up
the size/position of any shape OR if nothing's selected, the slide itself. And
another button to "hammer" a selected shape to the memorized size/position.

Pick up the slide's size/shape, bring in your image, click the hammer button,
you're done.

http://get.pptools.com to download the installer
http://www.pptools.com for more info about Starter Set

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[Guest]

Which version of PPT are you using and what search keywords were you using?

I'd like to pass this along to the PPT help team.
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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