Align shapes
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Align multiple shapes to left, right, top, bottom, middle (horizontally) or center (vertically) on your PowerPoint slide.
These features let you quickly access alignment buttons to align selected shapes in PowerPoint. Align objects on your PowerPoint slide in less clicks. Use the alignment features to align text boxes, shape, images or other objects. Align objects in PowerPoint relative to each other or to the position on the screen (e.g. center text box will anchor it to the horizontal center of your slide).
Default behavior for this feature is to align to the most extreme positioned shape, consistent with Microsoft's default in PowerPoint. However, you can temporarily or permanently override the default and force alignment to the first shape you select using PPT Productivity's Align to first selected feature.
Productivity TipIf you select a single object and an align feature, it will dock to the edge of the slide's text boundary. Read more about the No Fly Zone feature and setting your text boundary
Shortcut KeysAll PPT Productivity features can be used via the Customizable Shortcut Keys for PowerPoint feature. Use a PowerPoint shortcut to align objects. You can update the shortcut keys to any preferred available combination, but to get you started we created the following shortcut keys for aligning shapes in PowerPoint:
- Shortcut key to Align Objects Left Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L
- Shortcut key to Align Objects Right Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R
- Shortcut key to Align Objects Center horizontal Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E
- Shortcut key to Align Objects to Top Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T
- Shortcut key to Align Objects to Bottom Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B
- Shortcut key to Align Objects to Middle Vertical Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M
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Chapter Description Timestamp 1 How can I align PowerPoint shapes 00:00 2 How do I align selected shapes in PowerPoint? 00:06 3 How do I align multiple shapes on PowerPoint slide 00:13 4 How to align PowerPoint objects 00:18 5 Can I align by first shape selected in PowerPoint? 00:25 6 How to align PowerPoint objects by first selected 00:29