Setting Gridlines to Thirds

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Joel B. Kohm

Is there a simple way of dividing a slide into thirds vertically and
horizontally to aid in design. The gridlines don't seem amenable to that
type of division. The best I've come up with is to insert and distribute
evenly 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines, but it's a chore to do that for
each slide.

Joel B. Kohm
 
Try using Guides instead. Go to View > Grids and Guides and set it to display
drawing guides. That gives you 1 horizontal and 1 vertical guide that can be
dragged wherever you want. But, if you hold down the Ctrl key and click and
drag a guide, you can clone it. Make three each and drag them to wherever you
like. If you have the Ruler set to "On", it will help in the placement.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com
 
Sonia,

Thank you. That is a very helpful tip.

I was able to get the slides trisected exactly horizontally and vertically
by inserting 2 lines vertically and horizontally and distributing them
equally, then lining up the guidelines. This works better than doing the
math on the ruler.

Question - I saved the new guidelines in the master view, but that seems to
work for one slideshow master only. How do I make this trisection the
default for all new slides on every slideshow?
 
Guidelines can be saved with a presentation, but not with a template. From my
perspective that is best for me because for some presentations I may want to set
up lots of specific guides and for others that use the same template I may want
a very different set of guides.
 
Guidelines can be saved with a presentation, but not with a template. From my
perspective that is best for me because for some presentations I may want to set
up lots of specific guides and for others that use the same template I may want
a very different set of guides.
Click to expand...

Hm. In that case, if it were a Content Template (ie, one that contains slides)
would the guides be retained?
 
Sort of. If you open the template and create your presentation from it, it will
retain the guides. But if you open a new Blank presentation and then *apply*
the "content template", the guides from the template are lost.
 
Sort of. If you open the template and create your presentation from it, it will
retain the guides. But if you open a new Blank presentation and then *apply*
the "content template", the guides from the template are lost.
Click to expand...

My bad. I meant to specify which of those two methods I meant.

That makes sense. Creating a presentation anew from a template with content brings
the content along into the new presentation along with the template's formatting.

Applying a template to an existing presentation brings along only the formatting,
none of the content, from the template. Slides, VBA, and some settings get left
behind. Like guides. Thanks!

[yeah, I know you know all this] ;-)
 
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