PowerPoint should have tools to auto position selected 'shapes' ..

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PowerPoint should have tools to auto position selected 'shapes' . position
horizontal or vertical.

Thus a slide with many text boxes/ arrows should allow - re sizing (which it
does) and auto- repositioning - so that new bigger/smaller shapes can be
evenly positioned along vertical or horizontal planes.
 
Tushar,
It just dawned on me that you can use the grid to align to a horizontal or
vertical plane. You can activate it with a button in the custom toolbar
(PPT2003). You can adjust the settings of the grid if you click draw on the
drawing toolbar there should be an option to adjust the grid and add
guidelines. Or you can use the menu View and access grid and guidelines.
When you drag the shape it will be drawn to the guideline or grid. Not
automatic but close. Maybe that will help.
Luc
 
Tushar,

Powerpoint has many tools to help position objects and shapes.

I prefer to make my own toolbar (tools > customize) with them on for quick access to them.

The good ones are
Align Left, Right, Middle,
Align Top, Bottom, Middle
Distribute Vertically and Horizontally

If you want to re-size things....the sometimes...it's best to group them together first, so that you can scale them in
proportion.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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Tushar Kapila said:
PowerPoint should have tools to auto position selected 'shapes' . position
horizontal or vertical.

Thus a slide with many text boxes/ arrows should allow - re sizing (which it
does) and auto- repositioning - so that new bigger/smaller shapes can be
evenly positioned along vertical or horizontal planes.
Click to expand...

If you select more than one shape and resize them at once, they retain their
original position (sort of) but change size only.

If you select then GROUP the shapes before resizing, you'll get exactly what
you're asking for, I think.



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