Right Tools for Organized Slides

The best presentations are visually appealing and, most importantly, tidy.

Content is clear and straightforward. PowerPoint offers various options to streamline your slides, including on-screen guides, grids, smart guides, arrange tools, and the Size & Position window.

Guides and Gridlines

• Guides are especially useful for aligning complicated charts.
• First, a grid of lines is generated on the slide, showing the distances between the placeholders and the border.
• The red line marks the edge of the slide.
• Click the View tab, and then click the small arrow at the bottom right of the View tab. The Grid and Guides dialog box opens where you can customize and display grids for your slides.
• This tool is particularly helpful if you need to arrange many objects on a slide.

Smart Guides

• Smart guides assist in drawing and aligning shapes.
• To activate smart guides, check the Display smart guides when shapes are aligned option in the Grid and Guides dialog box.
• Red lines will indicate whether the edges of the objects on the slide are aligned.

Using Arrange Tools

• The Arrange tools are beneficial for drawing shapes first and aligning them later.
• The tools can be found under Drawing Tools/Format.

Specify Object Sizes and Positions

• If you want logos on your slides to maintain a uniform size and position, you must first define those parameters.
• Place the first logo where you want it.
• Right-click the logo and select Size and Position from the drop-down menu.
• Here, you can view the logo’s height and width values and change them if necessary.
• Insert your second logo on the following slide and use the same values as the first logo. Now both logos will be in exactly the same position.

Order and alignment play a major role in the impact of your presentation! The tools described should make it easy for you to keep your presentations streamlined and organized, allowing you to create clean presentations that are easy for your audience to follow.